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"Without an aesthetic program, it is impossible to truly recreate today’s
society in desired directions. We need more than just ideas of the things we
wish to avoid (ecological disaster, pandemics, famine, wars, existential risks
from technology…). We need
more than a moral mission (e.g. “remedy suffering”
or “save the animals” as discussed in one of my previous articles) or even the
search for truth (“the mysteries of the universe, as revealed by science, in
humanity’s greatest quest…”).
We also need an aesthetic longing that calls us: a sense of
beauty, of good
taste, of inspiration, of creativity.
The Nazis understood this very well. And so do the authoritarian regimes of
today. Democratic nice guys, on the other hand, seem to struggle grasping this.
As such, only authoritarian regimes have successfully managed to apply the
aesthetics that speaks to the longings of 21st century humans: solarpunk.
I believe that the solarpunk movement and its aesthetics offer some of the most
viable pathways for such an impulse — one that is capable of carrying forward
transition (to sustainability) and transformation (of social reality).
Solarpunk can be a vehicle of metamodernist visions, not as a set of abstract
ideas and ideals, but as something that is viscerally experienced through the
senses and thus easy to communicate and build momentum and movement around.
Solarpunks (i.e. people committed to this design sensibility) can be purveyors
of metamodern culture and thus ultimately of Protopian society, strengthening
these attractor points.
So this is relevant stuff — let’s take a closer look at what may be at stake."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
