@neilk, it's is A version of A future, and also nobody is forcing anyone to fit the stated parameters. If they feel like it too limiting they can just...not follow them 🤷 And they don't have to follow them forever in every piece they make

Creative prompts specifically suggest frames within which people can create, if they find the idea interesting or compelling. There is also the concept of creative limitation.

I am very curious to know what you had expected to see from this podcast instead

Perhaps I should not have said anything. You have a project and it gives you hope. There is lots of undiscovered country even within the parameters you have set

In my defense. I’m very suspicious of anything that constrains the artist to affirm a vision of the future. Been there done that. My reference to Le Guin was that she could only offer “ambiguous” utopias because she understood people all too well

inventwithpython.com/theguyial…

@alxd
*sigh*

You’re pushing on an open door. I am not the person you need to convince that ways of living, other than what white suburbanites in the US know about, are possible and even exist today

I just don’t believe that writing narratives with the overarching purpose of prefiguring some desired political or economic end state makes for good art. That’s just reverse Ayn Rand.

@neilk
and I'm trying to show you something else here. Because I am not trying to write art.

I am trying to write reporting.

What I described in the message above is just modern day Kenya. With its own share of problems, but a lot of _good_ things we don't notice.

I started looking into Solarpunk because I needed to have a new language for describing the reality around me that people wouldn't notice, wouldn't listen to normally!

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).

^{alxd - solarpunk hacker}

@neilk most of the Story Seeds / Writing Prompts are based on real stories, real situations, real communities.

I want people to notice them around.

Does it give it a desired political purpose? Yes, to change people's perspective.

Is it bad art? Maybe. But maybe I don't want to create good art, whatever it's definition.

I just want to create a language to talk about what's worthwhile for me.

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@_GreyWolf not everyone ;)

Some people create Wikipedia.

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

Some people build it with appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appr…

Welcome to Story Seed Library!

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

^{Story Seed Library}

@ccamara 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 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).

^{alxd - solarpunk hacker}

@solarpunkpresents @alxd @tomasino

You all have inspired me to think about a sequel to THE WORKING that adds to the how-do-we-do-it-now story. Where do we go from here?

I'd not intended THE WORKING to have a sequel but once it was out to the world, ideas poured in about following the coven and the wider community into their next chapter.

I'll be listening to @SolarpunkPrompts for inspiration!

#solarpunk

@alxd

Listening to the linked vid.

"But enough about Avatar movies" 🤣

@Letitbe @ccamara 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 ;)

@Letitbe @ccamara 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!

But you can "surely take a few little breaks throughout the day".

As if 5 min and a cup of tee will fix it. Though admittedly it's nice.
What I need is s proper night's rest for at least a week if not a month 😴

It’s what happens when you dismantle the tribe.

With babies is when you understand the appeal of communes.