{"id":333132,"date":"2021-09-01T00:36:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T21:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/solarpunk-the-word-of-the-month\/"},"modified":"2021-09-01T00:36:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T21:36:24","slug":"solarpunk-the-word-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/solarpunk-the-word-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Solarpunk\u2019: The word of the month"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#\u2018Solarpunk\u2019: The word of the month<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The term to add to your vocabulary this month is all about a utopian future\n <\/div>\n
\n Solar panels masquerade as roads and stained-glass windows. Plant life is intertwined with infrastructure, and colourful handcrafted wares are sold along pedestrian walkways. There may be airships, but a Victorian-inspired, ominous steampunk landscape this is not. Nor has this near-future fantasy been corrupted by cyberpunk\u2019s superintelligent singularities and artificial, post-human visions.<\/p>\n

Enter a new aesthetic, inspired by art nouveau and Afrofuturism, that envisions a sustainable, often realistic, sometimes utopian next chapter in our story. It\u2019s called solarpunk.<\/p>\n

Although the label emerged about a decade ago, it is gaining traction: in 2018, a reference in the Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>; in 2020, another in the Washington Post<\/em>. Arizona speculative fiction author Andrew Hudson worked on some of the first overtly solarpunk fiction\u2014a story he co-wrote called \u201cSunshine State\u201d won a climate fiction contest in 2016. \u201cIt\u2019s responding to a fatigue for dystopian and post-apocalyptic material,\u201d Hudson says, catching up with Maclean\u2019s<\/em> in the middle of a Colorado camping trip<\/a>. \u201cSolarpunk tends to be really interested in solutions to climate change and ways that we might reimagine our communities to make us more dignified and happ<\/a>y. It tries to be a re-evaluation of what high technology<\/a> means.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a rebellion, too\u2014hence the \u201cpunk\u201d\u2014against capitalism, anti-environmentalism and popular narratives about humanity\u2019s decline. \u201cOptimism has been taken away from us,\u201d declares an online solarpunk manifesto, \u201cand we are trying to take it back.\u201d
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