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2026-02-15 10:43 UTC
@foundseed@spore.social @v_d_richards@literatur.social @benrob0329@dice.camp the usage of the term in the west? Yes, with the Republic of Bees if I recall correctly, in 2008.
But there were other people starting Solarpunk independently, like Solarpunk: Histórias Ecológicas e Fantásticas em um Mundo Sustenavel in 2012.
The whole makerspace and hackerspace movement, especially from the Global South, looking for its own narrative space. I wrote about it at https://lenses.alxd.org/
It was never just aesthetics.
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@foundseed@spore.social 2026-02-15 15:37
@alxd@writing.exchange @v_d_richards@literatur.social @benrob0329@dice.camp yeah, I heard of the anthology, I was there on Tumblr when it was all getting invented. It's a speculative literary and art movement fabricated as a response to cyberpunk. I was just answering the rhetorical question, because I've participated in and observed solarpunk culture this entire time, with growing dismay and awareness of the movement's weak links. It began as a fictional genre first, a real politik second, so it's very weak to appropriation.