Aside from aesthetics, I don’t want any cyberpunk. I’m not sure I can handle even a dash of “I slot this chip in my head to behave like this dead celebrity so other people can fuck my body, but on the plus side I’m not aware of it while it’s happening”.
Sign me up for solarpunk tho.
Personally I see appeal in virtual worlds and a bit of the asthetic. But putting screens on everything isn’t sustainable at all. I guess cyberpunk is a sufficiently abstract concept for everyone to have their own qualifiers for what counts.
I mean, it’s supposed to be a dystopian world. You’re not supposed to want the world they’re giving you, hence the “punk” part. Too many people ignore that punk movements are meant to fight against an established system. That’s what punk is. When you say something is solarpunk or steampunk you are implying a downside to the established order. If nobody is rebelling it’s not punk.
Solarpunk is best punk ngl
Any solar punk recommendations other than “Monk and Robot”?
Dieselpunk!
Rifftrax version, sure, but not on its own.
I unironically love it. The fact that it has a big tribute to the Fleischer Superman cartoon The Mechanical Monsters helps. I had it on VHS when I was a kid.
Also, come on, zeppelin battle!
I’ll watch The Rocketeer for my zeppelin fix. Plus Jennifer Connelly.
Is solarpunk really punk though? Its like saying Utopias are punk.
Solarpunk seems positioned pretty firmly against the established corporate world. If being anti-establishment isn’t punk, I’m not sure what is.
In this scenario, solar energy is the establishment though.
It is. The difference is cyberpunk is “this is what will happen if we don’t fight back against the system” and Solarpunk is “this is what we could have if we DO fight back against the system”.
There are also problems in solarpunk worlds, they’re just different from our own present day issues. It’s like, we solved the climate crisis, but there is still an ever expanding frontier of injustice to rally against.
It only looks like a Utopia if you have 000 hope for the future
Solarpunk is often displayed as pretty post apocalyptic, but in a green, scrapper, free way
You know how the stuff -gate means scandal? -punk means fictional genre, or aesthetic.
What’s cypherpunk?
Free and open access to encryption and therefore privacy, usually by developing FOSS encryption.
