Dark Matter

Be Specific

I can decide what to say but not what the words mean which I have said.

Sep 13 • 

David Dark

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The Eternal Show: Joydoor

“I like the idea of providing a door for folks to enter joy.” These are some of Andy Harding’s words on Joy Door.

Sep 6 • 

David Dark

10

August 2025

Art in Dark Times

“One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth.” That’s Maria Prophetissa via Marie-Louise Von Franz.

Aug 25 • 

David Dark

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2

July 2025

The Nerve To Come Back

I thought about the distance between the people who want you dead and the people who want you gone, vanished through deportation or a more mundane form…

Jul 15 • 

David Dark

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June 2025

Live not by lies.

A huge number of people are either forced to act like cowards or act like cowards without being forced or even asked to.

Jun 29 • 

David Dark

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Forces of Evil in a Bozo Nightmare

Editor’s Note: Contexts.

Jun 13 • 

David Dark

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Due Process

Editor’s Note: This is my friend and neighbor Lynne McFarland addressing us again.

Jun 8 • 

David Dark

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5

May 2025

Sound And Signal

Editor’s note: Everything that follows this note is Brian Eno reflecting on a particular creative project he once took on and drawing a public line…

May 30 • 

David Dark

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No Tax-Funded Abductions

“Tennesseans need to remind elected officials they work for us, not the feds, because if constitutional protections don’t apply to the most vulnerable…

May 20 • 

David Dark

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Holy Anger

"As a Black woman, I’m glaringly aware of how my anger will be perceived.

May 17 • 

David Dark

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"Keep your fear small and your love big."

Editor’s Note: Y’all will remember our Lynne McFarland from the time she was carried out of our people’s house (the Tennessee State Legislature) and…

May 10 • 

David Dark

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April 2025

Good Friday

"The real scandal of the gospel is this: humanity's salvation is revealed in the cross of the condemned criminal Jesus, and humanity's salvation is…

Apr 18 • 

David Dark

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