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

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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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Show threadLemonMay 16
A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 2/2 ☀️
Show threadCarlos CámaraMay 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?
Show threadalxd ✏️ solarpunk promptsMay 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 …

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Show threadLetitbeMay 20
@alxd @ccamara @the_lemonaut your essay is brilliant ! Quite challenging, which if I understand correctly is the whole point. 👏
Show threadalxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts

@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 ;)

May 20 at 7:07amWeb
Show threadLetitbeMay 20
@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.
Show threadalxd ✏️ solarpunk promptsMay 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
Show threadLetitbeMay 20
@alxd @ccamara @the_lemonaut I did 👍
Show threadalxd ✏️ solarpunk promptsMay 20
@Letitbe @ccamara @the_lemonaut then do throw some ideas at us if you find anything that could be useful to imagine in Solarpunk! :)
Show threadLetitbeMay 20
@alxd @ccamara @the_lemonaut I'll first read your prompts and get familiar with the vision, then maybe why not? ;)
Show threadalxd ✏️ solarpunk promptsMay 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!

Show threadLetitbeMay 20
@alxd @ccamara @the_lemonaut will do. As for translation not sure I'm qualified but I'm willing to give it a try
Show threadTinJar (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

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