Part of an occasional series: ideas from outside the usual solarpunk reading list. „Solarpunk” gets used loosely — as an aesthetic, a mood, a Pinterest board of green rooftops and clean transit. Dariusz Piechota’s 2022 literary-critical essay takes the genre more seriously as a body of writing with real internal disagreements, and one distinction he […]
Kategoria: SolarPunk
We’re setting out in search of a path that might lead our descendants to an ecotechnical SolarPunk civilization. No warranty whatsoever, but it won’t be boring.
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Scrapyards and Gardens
Industrial civilization will most likely pass through phases of decline before anything resembling solarpunk emerges. An analysis grounded in EROEI, Tainter’s complexity theory, and Greer’s catabolic collapse — extended with Indigenous futurisms (Whyte) and a critique of resilience (Solarpunk Cambodia).
AI is not a homogeneous category to accept or reject wholesale. We separate three questions: about the concept itself, about today’s large-scale AI industry, and about the possibility of a decentralized model serving self-governance.