Okay, I guess this has to be said, because the people will always claim the same wrong thing: No, Solarpunk did not "start out as an aesthetic". Jesus, where the hell does this claim even come from?…
Is there somewhere I can read more about the anarchist history of the term? Also how is punk actually defined in this context? I have been confused about that for a while.
Interesting but it barely touches on anarchism. Not sure this answers my question—unless the answer is that anarchists later gravitated towards this idea and were not involved at the start?
I don’t think there is a definite answer on this as I think the anarchists involved in the early phase of solarpunk intentionally avoided the term to not over-politizise it. But if you are aware of the concepts and jargon it is hard to not see it shine through here and there in most of the influential solarpunk texts.
@LibertyLizard - I think it was a bit the other way round. Solarpunk started as an idea. Just the “I’m tired of dystopian scifi. I want utopias that address pragmatic concerns and show us a way out of this current situation.”
Then folks started to collate ideas on how to make that work and found that various anarchic philosophies already addressed it.
Gives some background on it and how it fits into the often called “lifestylist” anarchists that overlap strongly with the punk movement of the 1980ties and later.
Is there somewhere I can read more about the anarchist history of the term? Also how is punk actually defined in this context? I have been confused about that for a while.
@LibertyLizard @poVoq - Here you go:
“What is Solarpunk?” by Andrewism including
“A Brief History of Solarpunk” and “The Politics & Art of Solarpunk”
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/saint-andrew-what-is-solarpunk
#solarpunk
Interesting but it barely touches on anarchism. Not sure this answers my question—unless the answer is that anarchists later gravitated towards this idea and were not involved at the start?
I don’t think there is a definite answer on this as I think the anarchists involved in the early phase of solarpunk intentionally avoided the term to not over-politizise it. But if you are aware of the concepts and jargon it is hard to not see it shine through here and there in most of the influential solarpunk texts.
@LibertyLizard - I think it was a bit the other way round. Solarpunk started as an idea. Just the “I’m tired of dystopian scifi. I want utopias that address pragmatic concerns and show us a way out of this current situation.”
Then folks started to collate ideas on how to make that work and found that various anarchic philosophies already addressed it.
https://wiki.f-hub.org/books/slrpnknet/page/solarpunk-as-anarchist-infrapolitics
Gives some background on it and how it fits into the often called “lifestylist” anarchists that overlap strongly with the punk movement of the 1980ties and later.