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A Solarpunk Manifesto

The Solarpunk Community A Solarpunk Manifesto

Solarpunk: we are golden, and our future is bright

SOLARPUNK is a new rising speculative fiction genre & aesthetic, along the same lines of Steampunk, Cyberpunk, & others you might have heard of

No (bright) future for me: Solarpunk is not the new Cyberpunk

Some days ago, the article Is Solarpunk the new Cyberpunk?, written by RoAnna Sylva, popped on my Facebook timeline. Now renamed as…

Solarpunk Futures

The social ecological storytelling game where you and your friends build a better world.

A Solarpunk Manifesto

William Joseph Gillam A Solarpunk Manifesto Turning Imaginary into Reality 10 August 2023

The Daily Planet #126: A Plausible Dystopia - The Daily Planet

Solarpunk Futures

Players remember the stories of how their Ancestors built a Utopia.

Guide to Incrementals/Defining the Genre | The Paper Pilot

The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology

Technological Metamodernism (Sep 2024)

Technological Metamodernism A four-week course with Stephen Reid and special guests Telegram group: https://t.me/+4CC9lfZMBN04ZTdk Substack post announcing the open-sourcing of the notes: https://stephenreid.substack.com/p/technological-metamodernism-course This work is licensed under Cre...

Computational Public Space

Chapters — Intro, Communal computing, This presentation, Physicality — Globalization, Centrally-planned, Isolating, Private property, Surveillance, Consumption, Hidden — Summary, Outline

i am going to solve the cyberpunk discourse forever. part 1: the pigs.

A while back, I replayed Mass Effect; my politics have shifted more towards the left since I last played it about four years prior, and I…

The Protagonist Problem - Uncanny Magazine

“Speculative Resistance”—a term coined by Malka Older—posits that one great power speculative fiction wields is that exploring other worlds and ways societies could work encourages people to question extant systems, to imagine alternatives, to hope, to act, and to reject the old hope-ending “because that’s the way it is.” The author Ursula K. Le Guin […]

» Huge for the Holidays: Epic Interactive Fiction of the Millennial Period The Digital Antiquarian

After fighting the tendency for decades, I’ve finally learned to accept that I’m a bit of a conservative, if not a downright Luddite, when it comes to my interactive fiction — or my text adventures, as I still persist in calling them. Despite its name, parser-based interactive fiction doesn’t actually strike me as all that good at plot-heavy storytelling. What it does excel at is setting.

Joanna Russ- SF and Technology as Mystification

Talk about technology, long familiar to science-fiction readers and writers, is getting popular in Academia too. Particularly interesting to humanists is the connection between technology and whatever their own particular subject happens to be; I've attended three such formal symposia in the last five years, six including SF conventions, and including informal discussions among students, in writing classes, SF classes, and elsewhere, somewhere between fifty and sixty.

Technocracy | The Paper Pilot

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