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A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️

Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉

Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts

#solarPunk #hopePunk #art #myArt #comics #sustainability

Solarpunk Prompts (@SolarpunkPrompts) • Activity

What is Solarpunk? Why does it matter? In this series we discuss Solarpunk as a movement within art, literature, and activism. We explore its themes and talk about what separates it from its genre peers. Each episode explores a writing prompt set in a Solarpunk aesthetic with examples and inspirations from our world today. Based upon story prompts created by Paweł Ngei⁩. Episode transcripts available here New logo and cover image by Natalia Vish (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

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A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 2/2 ☀️

The Tired Horizon May 16

@the_lemonaut are you familiar with Guerilla Solar?

The act of bypassing the official routes of solar power and installing small off-grid and grid-tie systems to do your bit.

@the_lemonaut I really like this

👾 Attila Gonda May 17

@the_lemonaut > If you want more ideas to think about, check out the Solarpunk Prompts* podcast.
> *: No AI involved

music to my ears, already checking out the website ☺️

*(small comment: the asterisk and the explanation is missing from the ALT text, I think it'd be good to also include it!)*

Solarpunk Presents Podcast May 17

@the_lemonaut love this so much! This is the impulse behind Solarpunk Parents Podcast for me ... How can we ensure we're making a better future? Let's talk to people who are doing that right now, so solarpunk can see a way forward / what needs doing!

Also, your art style is so fun, very aesthetically pleasing and enjoyable (to me at least!) -Ariel

_GreyWolf May 17

@the_lemonaut
I love your positivity, but I really don't see it.
Humanity is a lost cause because everyone optimizes for themselves

Ovidi Nawer May 18

@_GreyWolf @the_lemonaut rather suboptimal look at humanity. As the best look for oneslef is to have everything be as perfect as possible, which means cooperation allows for a rather better outcome for the self as long as self defense is applied too.
i don't remember who said this first, but the root of all humanity's problems is...Missunderstandings, most probably. Then resentment and hard feelings make the never ending ball of pain and hypothetical evils becoming true.

_GreyWolf May 18

Well, game theory and limited knowledge are the root of the problem.
And as this is math, it won't change

alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts May 18

@_GreyWolf @the_lemonaut not everyone ;)

Some people create Wikipedia.

Some people contribute their visions of the future to https://storyseedlibrary.org/

Some people build it with https://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia

Welcome to Story Seed Library!

A library of Solarpunk art and story seeds helping you imagine a better climate future!

Story Seed Library

Carlos Cámara May 18

@the_lemonaut I've never read solarpunk, but I'm eager to find and read about utopias for the same reasons you argued. Do you have any recommendations in that sense?

alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts May 18

@ccamara @the_lemonaut I would recommend:

Gamechanger - LX Beckett
A Half Built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys
When You Had Power - Susan Kaye Quinn
Walkaway, The Lost Cause - Cory Doctorow

My own essay on Solarpunk is at https://lenses.alxd.org/

Solarpunk: lenses and foundations

Round Mirror by Ethan Sees Last year I published a lengthy videoessay on Solarpunk as a part of collaboration with a philosophical YouTube channel "Myśleć Głębiej" (Think That Through in English). It took me a few months to translate it and update a few sections (especially regarding cyberpunk's romanticism), but I'd like to present you with a written form of my essay - available in audio HERE! The recorded form follows a deeper exploration of philosophy of the movement, thoroughly discussing the notions of cultural hieroglyphs and squeecore I only briefly mention in the text below: Who am I? My name is Pawel Ngei, on the internet also known as A-L-X-D. I’m a software developer and hacker, someone analysing technology outside of a formal framework of a company or university. I’m especially interested in cultural narratives about technology and engineering, their impacts on societies and communities. I first encountered Solarpunk soon after the “Notes towards a Manifesto” came to be at Arizona State University in 2014 while looking for a way to express some …

alxd - solarpunk hacker

Carlos Cámara May 19

@alxd @the_lemonaut thank you!

@alxd @ccamara @the_lemonaut your essay is brilliant ! Quite challenging, which if I understand correctly is the whole point. 👏

alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts May 20

@Letitbe @ccamara @the_lemonaut thank you!

Honestly engaging with Solarpunk is challenging on multiple levels. There is still no masterpiece because a lot of writers trying to approach it take shortcuts which defeat the purpose, for example with technosolutionism.

We need to imagine the dirty and imperfect social change ;)

@alxd @ccamara @the_lemonaut I love this perspective. The more I look at a world which is increasingly alien to me, the more I see that the narrative is locking us up in what becomes an unquestionable vision. This also transpires in the semantics.

alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts May 20

@Letitbe @ccamara that's why I admire artists such as @the_lemonaut and others who joined the https://storyseedlibrary.org/ , trying to find new narratives and new visual languages to talking about the future. Do check them out :)

Welcome to Story Seed Library!

A library of Solarpunk art and story seeds helping you imagine a better climate future!

Story Seed Library

@alxd @ccamara @the_lemonaut I did 👍

alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts May 20

@Letitbe @ccamara @the_lemonaut then do throw some ideas at us if you find anything that could be useful to imagine in Solarpunk! :)

@alxd @ccamara @the_lemonaut I'll first read your prompts and get familiar with the vision, then maybe why not? ;)

alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts May 20

@Letitbe @ccamara @the_lemonaut do listen to the podcasts, Tomasino is doing awesome work presenting them in depth!

Also, if you're speaking French, you're welcome to translate them! I will be uploading some translations soon!

@alxd @ccamara @the_lemonaut will do. As for translation not sure I'm qualified but I'm willing to give it a try

TinJar (Author: "A New Faith")May 22

@alxd @Letitbe @ccamara @the_lemonaut

I definitely tried to do exactly that in “A New Faith” < https://tinjar.ghost.io >

A New Faith by TinJar

A New Faith - a solarpunk novel by TinJar

TinJar

manchicken May 19

@the_lemonaut love this