In October 2019 A Solarpunk Manifesto,[10] "a creative re-adaptation of ideas about solarpunk written by many people" was published, signed as The Solarpunk Community. We need to get that visionary impulse back, and then get it to work creating things. [20] Alan Moore's and Kevin O'Neill's 1999 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen historical fantasy comic book series (and the subsequent 2003 film adaptation) popularized the steampunk genre and helped propel it into mainstream fiction. [68], Elfpunk is subgenre of urban fantasy in which traditional mythological creatures such as faeries and elves are transplanted from rural folklore into modern urban settings and has been seen in books since the 1980s including works such as War of the Oaks by Emma Bull, Gossamer Axe by Gael Baudino, Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, and The Iron Dragons' Daughter by Michael Swanwick. On paper, being a solarpunk might sound like being a Marxist, a municipalist, or another ideology entirely. It practices prefigurative politics, creating spaces where the principles of a movement can be explored and demonstrated by enacting them in real life. [55] Rococopunk has most recently been featured on The X Factor through the artist known as Prince Poppycock. Notable literary precursors include Ernest Callenbach's 1975 novel Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston and Starhawk's ecofeminist trilogy The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993), Walking to Mercury (1997) and City of Refuge (2015). Others move beyond this, attempting to adopt a "steampunk" aesthetic through fashion, home decor and even music. A solarpunk doesnât just have ideas and beliefs; a solarpunk enacts. Our first stories, will be about DI Gene Russo one of the last murder detectives left in a radically better London of 2066. Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation is the first anthology to broadly collect solarpunk short fiction, artwork, and poetry. Bio Punk combines Punk Punk with Organic Technology and Bio-Augmentation, usually centered around genetic engineering and biotechnology. The book The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis is self-proclaimed clockpunk literature. Solarpunk futurism is not nihilistic like cyberpunk and it avoids steampunkâs potentially quasi-reactionary tendencies: it is about ingenuity, thrivability, generativity, independence, and community. Another absolutely fantastic essay from Rob Cameron. The big war eras, specifically. See more ideas about eco city, green architecture, futuristic architecture. More importantly, power does not only control the body, but also designs, (re)produces, (re)creates it according to its own objectives. and the Fallout series,[45][46][47] and books like Adam Christopher's novel The Age Atomic.[48][49]. film adaptation,[42] X-Men: First Class[42][43] and Men in Black 3,[42][43][44] video games like Destroy All Humans! [70], Catherynne M. Valente uses the term "mythpunk" to describe a subgenre of mythic fiction which starts in folklore and myth and adds elements of postmodern literary techniques. Of those, the most popular is Steampunk (a favorite of mine). Hopepunk ecopunk solarpunk creative writing on environmental justice grimdark. American author Bruce Bethke coined the term "cyberpunk" in his 1980 short story of the same name, proposing it as a label for a new generation of punk teenagers inspired by the perceptions inherent to the Information Age. Solarpunk is a genre of ecologically-oriented speculative fiction characterized both by its aesthetic and its underlying socio-political vision (Sylva, 2015). Notable examples of atompunk in popular media that have been released since the period include television series like Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Venture Bros, Archer and the web series The Mercury Men,[36] comic books like Ignition City[37][38] and Atomic Age, films like The Incredibles, The Iron Giant,[39] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,[40][41] the Man from U.N.C.L.E. Solarpunk feels like a cathartic uncorking of a pent up imagination, and that energy can be channeled in different directions. Some postcyberpunk settings can have diverse types of augmentations instead of focusing on one type but others such as GitS can revolve around one type of technology like prosthetics similar to classical cyberpunk. [5] Steampunk imagines a new history and world with steam as the main energy source rather than the traditional electricity of today, while solarpunk imagines renewable energy sources as the primary source of energy. As seen in the movie Avatar (2009) by James Cameron, the genre is about living in unison with nature. Social Anarchist Futures. [53] As one steampunk scholar[54] put it, "Imagine a world where the Rococo period never ended, and it had a lovechild with Sid Vicious. [5][unreliable source?]. If anything maybe this is a mix of Solarpunk and Ecopunk, but Ecotopia is a gem of a novel that anyone dreaming of a better world should read. Decopunk is a recent subset of Dieselpunk, centered around the art deco and Streamline Moderne art styles, and based around the period between the 1920s and 1950s New York, Chicago, or Boston. This movement may also be (perhaps more accurately) described as "Neo-Victorianism", which is the amalgamation of Victorian aesthetic principles with modern sensibilities and technologies. So there", "Ignition City – 15 Comics That Deserve TV Shows", "PUNK 101: Steampunk, Dieselpunk and a Three Year Old Genius! [72], Most works of mythpunk have been published by small presses, such as Strange Horizons,[73] because "anything playing out on the edge is going to have truck with the small presses at some point, because small presses take big risks". Examples include the movies Iron Sky, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Rocketeer, K-20: Legend of the Mask, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Dark City, and video games such as Crimson Skies, Greed Corp, Gatling Gears, BioShock and its sequel BioShock 2, The Legend of Korra, Skullgirls,[28] Wolfenstein, Iron Harvest, and Final Fantasy VII. In an interview[57] at CoyoteCon, steampunk author Sara M. Harvey made the distinctions "shinier than dieselpunk, more like decopunk", and "Dieselpunk is a gritty version of steampunk set in the 1920s–1950s. There have been a handful of divergent terms based on the general concepts of steampunk. Since collective individual involvement is part of how we define ourselves, starting a wiki to support us seemed like a natural idea. Peters. Although, since much of the film is set on a boat, some critics argue that Moana should instead be considered boatpunk. Feb 10, 2021 - Explore iNSL Partners Driving STEM's board "Solarpunk", followed by 339 people on Pinterest. Jul 1, 2020 - Explore Khi's board "ecopunk/solarpunk" on Pinterest. Related terms include Ecopunk and Hopepunk.Pulling on this thread also led me to the term "CliFi" or "Climate Fiction" which is often not so hopeful!Let me know if you find any particularly good solarpunk reads - share the vision. [4] Solarpunks practice the movement in various ways, from utopian efforts like creating ecovillages to smaller actions such as growing one's own food and DIY. SolarPunk Stories wants to inspire the radical change we need by telling thrilling tales from better futures. [2] Scholars have written of these subgenres' stylistic place in postmodern literature, and also their ambiguous interaction with the historical perspective of postcolonialism.[3]. The word is an amalgam of the prefix "cyber-", referring to cybernetics, and "preppy", reflecting its divergence from the punk elements of cyberpunk. [10], The Daemon novels by Daniel Suarez could be considered postcyberpunk in that sense. That stands in stark contrast to a world where technology is ⦠This mechanism as Foucault remarks is a form of power, which "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives". Other writers suggest Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series, the Heinlein juveniles and the film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. This characteristic is particularly evident in steampunk fashion which tends to synthesize punk, goth and rivet styles as filtered through the Victorian era. Some of these precursors to atompunk include 1950s science fiction films (including, but not limited to, B movies), the Sean Connery-era of the James Bond franchise,[34] Dr. Strangelove, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The Avengers, early Doctor Who episodes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Green Hornet, The Jetsons, Johnny Quest,[35] Thunderbirds, Speed Racer and some Silver Age comic books. These are typically considered unofficial and are often invented by readers, or by authors referring to their own works, often humorously. [60][61] While not originally designed as such, the original Star Trek series has an aesthetic very reminiscent of raypunk. Promised Land: Religious Ideology and Solarpunk Science Fiction. The author, Adam Flynn, has credited the Miss Olivia Louise post as inspiration.[9]. [21], The most immediate form of steampunk subculture is the community of fans surrounding the genre. A story that contrasts Solarpunkâs vision of beautiful, dirty, solidaritistic, environmentalism/climate survival with ecofascist unsolutions. [32] Most science fiction of the period carried an aesthetic that influenced or inspired later atompunk works. Climate change and the threat of environmental disasters are not averted, but they are less absolute. The narrative within many stories is based on interpersonal, social and political conflicts. [63] Since society is largely leisure-driven, advanced body modifications are used for sports, pleasure and self-improvement. [5], While solarpunk has no specific political ideation, it does by default embrace the need for a collective movement away from traditional, polluting forms of energy. 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Valente, by JoSelle Vanderhooft", "Make Way for Plaguepunk, Bronzepunk, and Stonepunk", "Punk Punk" index of Cyberpunk derivatives, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cyberpunk_derivatives&oldid=1010265825, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles lacking reliable references from September 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 4 March 2021, at 16:39. Clockpunk often portrays Renaissance-era science and technology based on pre-modern designs, in the vein of Mainspring by Jay Lake,[14] and Whitechapel Gods by S. M. When I asked about ways to live a more solarpunk lifestyle on the mastodon solarpunk instance and /r/solarpunk on Reddit many of the suggestions were quite cool, but ran into a problem that they assumed a degree of space. Sterling used the term to describe his book The Zenith Angle, which follows the story of a hacker whose life is changed by the September 11, 2001 attacks.[62]. Islandpunk is a subgenre of the retrofuturistic subdivisions of cyberpunk that includes narratives set on islands. [32][33] Its aesthetic tends toward Populuxe and Raygun Gothic, which describe a retro-futuristic vision of the world. [71], Typically, mythpunk narratives focus on transforming folkloric source material rather than retelling it, often through postmodern literary techniques such as non-linear storytelling, worldbuilding, confessional poetry, as well as modern linguistic and literary devices. Escapism vs self-care. The artefacts of Steelpunk aren't grown, printed or programmed, they're built. First name. Its new addition is Solarpunk, a subgenre and movement pointed out to me by a kind fan on Facebook. 1 Welcome to SolarPunk! The Flintstones franchise and its various spin offs falls under this category. Urban fantasy, though, can have some totally made-up f*cked-up [sic] creatures". Such narratives utilise island-based technologies and the island locations to make their thematic statements. Person advocates using the term "postcyberpunk" for the strain of science fiction he describes. Biopunk emerged during the 1990s and focuses on the near-future unintended consequences of the biotechnology revolution following the discovery of recombinant DNA. [5] Its aesthetics take inspiration from Art Nouveau and Afrofuturism and the Arts and Crafts movement,[12] making use of the handcrafted emphasis on the Arts and Crafts movement. [2], Movement which encourages optimistic envisionings of the future, Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston, "At the Very Least We Know the End of the World Will Have a Bright Side", "What You Can Learn From the Solarpunk Movement", "Explainer: 'solarpunk', or how to be an optimistic radica", "Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? But maybe itâs better not to get drawn into terms. Power touches the body through the genes, injects viruses to the veins, takes the forms of pills and constantly penetrates the body through its surveillance systems; collects samples of body substance, reads finger prints, even reads the 'prints' that are not visible, the ones which are coded in the genes. SOLARPUNK VS. CLI-FI "In a fictional sense, solarpunk sits across the table from âcli-fiâ (a riff on âclimate fictionâ). [18], The term was coined by the GURPS role playing system. In a post describing Steelpunk on the SFFWorld website it is characterised as being "about hardware, not software, the real world not the virtual world, megatechnology not nanotechnology. [58] Screen examples include the episode The Nightmare of Milky Joe in The Mighty Boosh, Gilligan's Island, and Castaway. [4][1], The name "solarpunk" is a derivative of the 1980s science fiction genre cyberpunk. Online communities that discuss and share solarpunk messaging are also often interested in the prepper lifestyle. The early ideas of solarpunk can be traced back to 2008;[5] in that year, a blog named Republic of the Bees published the post, "From Steampunk to Solarpunk." [53] Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, often known as "the Queen of Punk Fashion", also mixes Rococo with punk stylings.[56]. Feb 1, 2021 - Explore Claire Lepercq's board "Solarpunk" on Pinterest. Solarpunk is a fledgling label, but the concept has been around for a good while in science fiction. In particular, it uses aspects of folklore to subvert or question dominant societal norms, often bringing in a feminist and/or multicultural approach. Cyberpunk is nonetheless regarded as a successful genre, as it ensnared many new readers and provided the sort of movement that postmodern literary critics found alluring. She had spent the first part of her life âtaking it for granted that the world was doomed.â Solarpunk offers the vision of a âbetter future even if itâs not perfect.â Anarchism used to be bursting with utopian imagination. 3 Engineering 4 Greening 5 Practical_Help 6 Socialization 7 Social_Innovation 8 Stories 9 Latest activity Solarpunk is a brand-new (as of September 2014) genre, loosely in the area of science fiction. At least solarpunk sounds better. Popular icons in the genre include van life vans, solar panels, waterfalls, indigenous peoples,[3] parrots, psychedelic mushrooms, wind turbines, vertical gardens, and fruits. [22] The goal of such redesigns is to employ appropriate materials (such as polished brass, iron, and wood) with design elements and craftsmanship consistent with the Victorian era. [1] Solarpunk describes a multitude of media such as literature, fine arts, architecture, fashion, music, tattoos, and video games in a similar manner to adjacent movements such as steampunk and cyberpunk as well as more established art movements like Baroque and Impressionism. [7] The genre is similar to biopunk, but describes a world in with more focus on Drexlerian "dry" nano-assemblers,[8] nanites, and nanotechnology is in wide use than on biotechnology, bionanotechnology, and biorobotics (albeit like in biopunk, bio-, nanotechnologies, and cyberware often coexist in contrast to classical cyberpunk settings tending to heavily focus on mechanical cyberware to the point of genetic engineering and nanotechnologies being outright banned in some cyberpunk settings). In this view, typical postcyberpunk stories explore themes related to a "world of accelerating technological innovation and ever-increasing complexity in ways relevant to our everyday lives" with a continued focus on social aspects within a post-third industrial-era society, such as of ubiquitous dataspheres and cybernetic augmentation of the human body. ", "The Man From U.N.C.L.E. [69] The 2020 Pixar animated film Onward is an example of an elfpunk film, set in a "suburban fantasy world" that combines modern and mythic elements. As a wider variety of writers began to work with cyberpunk concepts, new subgenres of science fiction emerged, playing off the cyberpunk label, and focusing on technology and its social effects in different ways. The post begins the conceptualization of solarpunk as a literary genre inspired by steampunk. [26] First coined in 2001 as a marketing term by game designer Lewis Pollak to describe his role-playing game Children of the Sun,[25][27] dieselpunk has grown to describe a distinct style of visual art, music, motion pictures, fiction, and engineering. See more ideas about punk movement, anti capitalism, environmental science. ... Is solarpunk the new word for ecopunk? [29][30][31], Atompunk (also known as atomicpunk) relates to the pre-digital period of 1945–1969, including mid-century modernism, the Atomic Age, Jet Age and Space Age, communism as well as anti-communist and Red Scare paranoia in the United States, along with Neo-Soviet styling, underground cinema, Googie architecture, Sputnik and the Space Race, early Cold War espionage, superhero fiction and comic books, and the rise of the U.S. military–industrial complex. Solarpunk also emphasizes handcrafted wares (as opposed to mass-produced products) and community. In addition to themes of its ancestral genre postcyberpunk might also combine elements of nanopunk and biopunk. Rafael Miranda Huereca states: In this fictional world, the unison in the hive becomes a power mechanism which is executed in its capillary form, not from above the social body but from within.