LemonMay 16

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

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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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Show threadCharlie StrossMay 16
@the_lemonaut @qlaras You just reinvented the Mundane SF movement from 20 years ago.
Show threadcwicseolfor
@cstross @the_lemonaut @qlaras This variation on solarpunk, under the solarpunk name, has been pretty prominent for a decade or so (though it’s being brilliantly summed up and illustrated here in my absolute favorite iteration of itself.) Most the major citations date to the early twenty-teens.
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Show threadalxd ✏️ solarpunk promptsMay 16

@cwicseolfor @qlaras

Hey @cstross - first, let me thank you for your books, Accelerando inspired me to be who I am today!

I'm one of the writers of the @SolarpunkPrompts podcast @the_lemonaut mentions and wrote quite a few essays on the movement.

Solarpunk doesn't claim to be anything new, it's just a label people are rallying around to imagine how a future could look like if we are to become a sustainable civilization.

Something which is still way too hard to imagine.

Show threadSolarpunk Presents PodcastMay 17

@alxd @cwicseolfor @qlaras @cstross @SolarpunkPrompts @the_lemonaut I see solarpunk as a new iteration of older impulses, outfitted to meet this moment (like cyberpunk met the moment of the mid-late eighties). I think solarpunk definitely needs to spend time considering its forbears and the movements in SF/literal social movements that inform it, not just to understand solarpunk as it is now more fully, but also to learn from those who have come before us and carry forward their visions, tweaked to respond to reality as it is now :) If there are solarpunks out there who do that, they're so few and far between and their voices aren't super prominent that they aren't represented well...- @arielkroon

(Ugh tried to post this from my personal account and got dinged for character count. I hate breaking things up over multiple posts if I don't have to. Let me have my gigantic run-on sentences!)

Show threadLeather Daddy but StraightMay 17

@alxd @cwicseolfor @qlaras @cstross @SolarpunkPrompts I would propose: (and this may be controversial, I’m open to being told I’m wrong) that if solarpunk is to be worth an ounce it cannot be only an artistic movement. It must be something that is, as @the_lemonaut proposes, a behavior or a design that materially impacts the world. Otherwise it’s just another demonstration of what Vonnegut said about Vietnam.

Maybe I’m full of shit

Show threadalxd ✏️ solarpunk promptsMay 17

@Jetengineweasel @cwicseolfor @qlaras @cstross @SolarpunkPrompts @the_lemonaut

Or maybe it already is a movement, one which couldn't find a name before, all these technologies from the Global South, open source and open culture values from Wikipedia to Appropedia, Safecasts and more? ;)

I wrote about it extensively at https://lenses.alxd.org/ !

I came to Solarpunk because I had no other language to tell the real stories I saw.

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
Show threadCollector Of Dreams3d ago
@alxd @Jetengineweasel @cwicseolfor @qlaras @cstross @SolarpunkPrompts @the_lemonaut call it "realismo mágico", but as Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia understands it: like oneironauts do with reality: not separated from the spirit...so REAL anyway. That concept was seeing with condescending attitudes but we the ones who have lived or come from Global South, is a lifestyle that doesn't need to be counterpart of #cyberpunk to exist or to express other layers of existence, that include #eutopias and #utopias but also the #unseen...