"Solarpunk is about 'ingenuity, generativity, independence, and community' — the last of which is of particular interest — and rightly sees 'infrastructure as a form of resistance.' Politically, the stories vary, but they always feature a progressive focus on race, gender, and equality of all kinds: many revolve around themes of difference, recognition, and acceptance. … Continue reading Solarpunk: Against a Shitty Future
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Why “The Culture” Wins
"Now consider Banks’s scenario. Consider the process that is generating modern hypercultures, and imagine it continuing for another three or four hundred years. The first consequence is that the culture will become entirely defunctionalized. Banks imagines a scenario in which all of the endemic problems of human society have been given essentially technological solutions (in … Continue reading Why “The Culture” Wins
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