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"I started making zines about three years ago. I’ve only made a few, but I was
entranced by this DIY approach to mini storytelling popping up here and there
on the interwebs. It fell into the category of “things that have been around
forever but are getting new life online” and I’ve learned those can be signals
of what’s brewing in the underground, a place where I believe solarpunk and the
kind of storytelling we lift up here on the pod still reside.
The idea that something isn’t important until it “scales up” or “hits the
mainstream” is something I’ve been heavily interrogating for a while. I think
that’s actually the opposite of how cultural change works. A viral video
doesn’t change the culture; a video goes viral because it resonates with or
encapsulates cultural change already under way.
And that cultural change happens almost entirely in what I call “the
underground”—which is really just my shorthand for things that are happening
below the radar, things we may all be aware of or even doing ourselves but
don’t see represented in mainstream cultural narratives about “the way things
are.”"
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*** 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
