Post #2324664

2026-05-09 15:36 UTC

RE: https://spore.social/@foundseed/116545214905646682 I&#39;ve been waiting for this essay from @foundseed - a criticism of #solarpunk as understood from the American / Internet / Punk perspective. I&#39;m personally not that attached to the label or the &quot;mainstream&quot; parts of the movement. My own goal is to find a language, a narrative and a set of symbols/hieroglyphs to tell the stories necessary for our survival. Stories happening right now. That&#39;s why I started the #storySeedLibrary . Maybe Solarpunk isn&#39;t_the thing, but I can&#39;t see any better one.

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@alxd@writing.exchange 2026-05-09 15:44

@foundseed@spore.social I think I might have a few answers to your rhetorical questions! > Where is the solarpunk rage? (...) What are the “militant solarpunks” doing? Moving quietly and planting things. Building parallel infrastructures that rage wouldn't be able to build. There is value in slow, long-term work. > What technologies can we actually trust our future to? Open technologies shaped by the communities that use them. Like what's in https://www.appropedia.org/

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@alxd@writing.exchange 2026-05-09 16:00

@foundseed@spore.social pulling the thread in the third direction: How would you call a language, a narrative, to talk about the upcoming climate disasters and how our cultures, communities and infrastructure need to change to address them? It might not be Solarpunk for all the reasons that you pointed out. I think we absolutely need to focus on the upcoming struggles - it won't just be punk or indigenous stewardship, but stories of hurt and perseverance. #solarpunk #climateChange #disaster #climate

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@foundseed@spore.social 2026-05-09 15:46

@alxd@writing.exchange I addressed the "lack of language" statement in the essay. It is not a lack of language we suffer from, it is platforms not giving space or weight to indigenous frameworks that already talk about everything solarpunk cares about. What is wrong with the language already available?

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@amici@fribygda.no 2026-05-09 16:08

@alxd@writing.exchange @foundseed@spore.social I'm confused by this idea that solarpunk is in any way mainstream. Where does this come from? Is it just because of hashtag use on corporate social media? Does that count as mainstream? What is this mainstream that is being referenced?

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@NatureMC@mastodon.online 2026-05-09 16:29

@alxd@writing.exchange @foundseed@spore.social Interesting essay. Do we need to label everything? Living in Europe, my first contact to solarpunk/hopepunk was when publishers promoted it already as a marketing label aka genre for certain books. Working with books, I knew that these labels were only trends, made for better profit. I was quickly astonished that I found more fanfiction and texts with that big patronising, even preaching tone instead of being real literature. At that time I learnt that it was also a movement,

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