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"Often we call the war capitalism vs. solarpunk. Or we might call the
antagonists fascists or Neo Colonialists or TESCREALs. Maybe their ideology is
authoritarianism or their economics are Technofeudalism, a form of cloud-based
capitalism from Yanis Varoufakis’ provocative book, which we’re going to talk
more about. Maybe you think that better world will have anarcho-syndicalism or
socialism or simply a restoration of our tattered democracy in nations that
purport to have it.
We’re struggling to name the sides of this ideological war, even though we
increasingly feel the heat of it as the stakes mount: it’s a
polycrisis, and
it seems like every aspect of our hyper-connected world is in need of some kind
of fix or solution, if not revolution. We struggle for easy-to-name ideologies
for either side because the polycrisis is so far-reaching, the world is not
reductively simple, the sides are still lining up, and especially in terms of
the climate crisis, the ground is constantly shifting (sometimes literally),
and the future is brightly and terrifyingly unknown.
But I want to take a stab at it, and especially discuss Varoufakis’ book
because some recent events are giving edges and clarity to the fight, and
I’m
honestly surprised how well solarpunk holds up as a counter narrative, an
opposing vision to the capitalist hellscape. And I think that means something,
that rigor, despite it still being (possibly) a small-ish movement.
We’ve talked extensively about solarpunk and hopepunk and hopeful climate
fiction narratives on the pod, so I’m not going to recap all that here. But I
highly recommend you follow Not Yet Weathered on TikTok, or at least watch her
pinned video about how solarpunk is inherently political as a refresh."
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
