It's up! Elijah Claude's rant/analysis responding to misinformed #solarpunk critique.
Includes lots of resources! (opinions his own...and worth reading!)
brightflame.com/in-response-toโฆ
Mentions @susankayequinn @AEMarling @drewthewho and more
#justice #hope #activism #resilience
Note: Elijah just joined us here @eruditelijah on kolektiva.social Should be set up soon.
In response to misinformed criticism of solarpunk โ BrightFlame
Some dismiss solarpunk as unrealistic, sappy, etc. Here's TechnoShaman and Black anarchist Elijah Claudeโs excellent response.BrightFlame
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*sniffs, tugs at shirt* You know, the true perversity of Evangelion is not the obvious Freudian symbology -- the mother in the robot, the father who abandons, and so on and so on -- but rather how it stages the fundamental deadlock of the otaku subject under late capitalism.
*gestures wildly* Here you have Shinji, the perfect neoliberal subject: he doesn't want to pilot the Eva, he hates it, but he does it anyway! Why? Because of some abstract duty? No! Because he has already internalized the superego injunction to enjoy his own exploitation. "I mustn't run away" - this is not courage, this is the purest ideology!
*touches nose* But the real obscenity -- and here Anno is a true genius, whether he knows it or not -- is how the series presents instrumentalisation itself as traumatic. NERV literally dissolves the boundary between human and machine, mother and weapon, and what do we get? Not liberation but pure anxiety! The EVA units are the perfect metaphor for our digital predicament: we are told these technologies will extend our capabilities, make us posthuman, but instead we discover *laughs darkly* that we were always already instruments!
Gendo's Human Instrumentality Project is just making explicit what capitalism already does: reducing humans to pure exchangeable substance, orange goo, the ultimate liquidity!
*sniff* And the masterstroke is the ending - not the false happy ending of End of Evangelion, but the original episodes 25 and 26, where the budget runs out and we get pure interiority. *waves hands* "Congratulations!" they all say to Shinji. But for what? For accepting his place in the symbolic order? This is the ultimate perversity: the show literally cannot afford to show the apocalypse, so instead it stages the real catastrophe - the subject accepting his own subjection as liberation! The production committee pulls the funding, and Anno turns this material limitation into the perfect metaphor for ideological closure!
*adjusts shirt violently* You know what nobody wants to admit? Evangelion is not about robots or aliens or whatever -- it's about the impossibility of authentic action under capitalism. Every character is trapped in their own repetition compulsion: Misato drinks, Asuka performs superiority, Rei submits to erasure; and the Angels? The Angels are just the return of the repressed, the stupid insistence of the Real that says: your little techno-military complex cannot contain the trauma of existence!
*sniff* And so on, and so on...
Trump Tariff Challengers Back Fast-Track Supreme Court Review
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Federal judge blocks Trump administration from canceling temporary protections granted to 1.1M Haitians, Venezuelans. Read more from @AssociatedPress:
Silicon Valley Insider Runs for California Governor
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Deux frรจres et une obsession : crรฉer la simulation la plus complexe ; le projet Dwarf fortress โ Obscuria
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Mais l'histoire est si mignonne 
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Wall Streetโs Wealth Engine Powers Through Job-Market Anxiety
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Youโll Never Have Enough Cheese
Thisย Human Factors International presentationย (ppt) references something called a Columbia Obstruction Device: I couldnโt find any actual references to the Columbia University science experiment theyโre referring to, but it certainly seems plausibleโฆJeff Atwood (Coding Horror)
It's hilariously wild to me how much more reach my Pixelfed posts have over Instagram.
I just started a new Instagram (for work, I have Meta, but you need it to reach out to influencers and stuff), and there are three likes on about 40 photos.
I just uploaded two new photos to my Pixelfed, and BAM, likes are FLOODING IN because I use the proper hashtags.
IG is straight-up garbage for creatives and photographers.
Advanced search operators list (Gitlab version)
List of the links to the docs for different services, which explain using of advanced search operators.
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Build your own wedding website with Visualmodo WordPress themes! ๐จโโค๏ธโ๐โ๐จ๐๐ท๐ฅโค๏ธ๐๐
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Ok, ho pubblicato il mio giochetto (il secondo progetto della mia vita ed il primo terminato) per la "LรVE Jam 2025 [B-SIDE]".
Lo trovate qui: mrnetwork.itch.io/space-bricks
Fatemi sapere cosa ne pensate! Senza remore!
PS: so che รจ semplice e banale, ma essendo il mio secondo progetto mi sento orgoglioso di quello che ho realizzato ๐
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Ultimate entrepreneurial success metric: becoming wealthy enough that LinkedIn profile updates become unnecessary.
Current reality: updating LinkedIn status every time follower count increases by three people.
The aspiration remains distant but motivating. Professional social media obligations persist regardless of financial status.
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Jeff Jarvis's definition of journalism exposes parallels between the missions of journalism and participant-driven & participation-rich events
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BIG MILESTONE! ๐
Weโve just crossed 100 posts on !videogames@piefed.social.
After a week of building and curating, the community already has 58 subscribersโand itโs only getting started.
Iโve been thinking hard about the kind of place I want this to be. The vision comes down to three things:
- Real conversations about games
- Minimal memes
- Zero outrage culture
I want this community to be about joyโa space for people who actually play video games to share what excites them. Not a dumping ground for culture wars. Not another echo chamber for Gamergate-era nonsense.
Games are for everyone. And everyone should feel comfortable digging deep here. Talk about an obscure Japanese console. Explore weird European PCs. Or break down the craft behind how a game actually got made. Thatโs the stuff I want to see flourish.
Hereโs to the next 100 postsโand beyond. Come join in:
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Oรน on apprend รฉgalement que le volet technique a รฉtรฉ en partie rรฉalisรฉ par l'รฉquipe de Nota Bene qui va devoir s'expliquer parce qu'il รฉtait plutรดt rรฉglo jusque lร .
(D'ailleurs si des gens ont Bluesky et se sentent d'interpeller le "camarade" vidรฉaste, je suis curieux de sa rรฉponse...)
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Une "Citรฉ immersive des Fables" de La Fontaine, financรฉe notamment par Pierre-Edouard Stรฉrin, s'implante ร Paris
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European Union regulators have hit Google with a โฌ2.95bn ($3.5bn) fine for breaching the blocโs competition rules by favouring its own digital advertising services.
Also: "Any person or company affected by anti-competitive behaviour as described in this case may bring the matter before the courts of the Member States and seek damages."
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Commission fines Google โฌ2.95 billion over abusive practices in online advertising technology
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Spit spat: Jalen Carter's ejection from Eagles' opener was latest saliva-driven dismissal in sports
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Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ)
in reply to BrightFlame ๐โ๏ธ๐ • • •I must say I'm surprised at how closely my own developed opinion and vision for solarpunk is to @eruditelijah
There's only one thing I would like to emphasize just because I think it's really important, and that is that solarpunk is, or at least should be, activist fiction. The writing of it is activist, the choices of topic are activist, the characters have activist tendencies that offer us role models. This aspect of solarpunk fiction is what makes it valuable in the now, imo
Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ)
in reply to Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ) • • •@eruditelijah
Solarpunk inspires by examples that we can understand and apply in our own lives with minimal leaps of imagination.
BrightFlame ๐โ๏ธ๐
in reply to Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ) • • •@amici @eruditelijah I wrote a piece on nonbinariness awhile back for @solarpunkgnome 's excellent series on Solarpunk & Spirituality. Applies here (imho) re: solarpunk writing have overt activism. Yes! And we need more!
We also need the aspirational writing that gets us to dream bigger and seeds inspiration. So we need the present, the far future, and ways to get there. We need it all in the generative engine of #solarpunk. @SolarpunkPrompts has some great ideas about missing pieces.
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Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ)
in reply to BrightFlame ๐โ๏ธ๐ • • •@eruditelijah @solarpunkgnome
Personally I don't like the far-future, it gets escapist very quickly because it requires too much of a leap of imagination to get there. It becomes sort-of like a nice dream, but not an actionable dream.
However, if we can find a path to get there that works in writing, all the better.
Maybe a version of the saga-format could work? Sagas, a literally style from my own country of Norway and developed in the viking age, tackle generational events.
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Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ)
in reply to Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ) • • •For instance, Snorre's King Sagas, written after the viking age, outlines the biographies of every king of Norway across hundreds of years
Instead of kings, you can have community sagas, biographies of communities with the focus on a few representative characters, detailing their contributions to community change from birth to old age. Over several books you have the full evolution of a community from, for instance, early 21st century to 23rd century
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Elijah the TechnoShaman
in reply to Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ) • • •@amici
I actually really like that saga idea! I enjoy far future stuff too, but I do think most solarpunk does focus on near future or even alt history.
I've been thinking about creating a story of sorts that focuses on how the world can change from today on into the far future, so I may check out that story you suggested to get an idea on how to go about that.
Focusing on community rather than a few 'main characters' is the key to this I think too.
Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ)
in reply to Elijah the TechnoShaman • • •I must admit I just mentioned Snorre's King Sagas because I'm a history buff, it's more like an early work of history writing and has a very simple style, though it does focuses on changes in the Kingdom through time, but for an example of modern saga you have "Sagaen om Isfolket", transl. to English as "The Legend of the Ice People" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leโฆ, a friend of mine really likes that series.
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Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ)
in reply to Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ) • • •One might take inspiration from the historical style to make a history of the future, but one could also simply just write a series of texts, where in each text you follow some community members as their community changes from a young age until they're old, then in the next text, you shift focus to new young characters in the community while the previous ones are old people and background characters. This way there's a slight bit of chronological overlap of texts.
Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ)
in reply to Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ) • • •I'm not a solarpunk novel writer because I'm already committed to my own fantasy book series, so anyone please take this idea and try to realize it, otherwise it might just be forgotten
Elijah the TechnoShaman
in reply to Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ) • • •@amici Thanks for your suggestions and thoughts on this!! Excited to check out that saga and I do quite like that approach you mentioned as well.
Got a lot to think about!!
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in reply to Elijah the TechnoShaman • • •Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ)
in reply to BrightFlame ๐โ๏ธ๐ • • •@eruditelijah
Elijah the TechnoShaman
in reply to Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ) • • •@amici Yes I think that activism piece is a huge and important part! Sad I didn't mention that explicitly, but I felt it was implied via the ideas of punk itself.
However it's becoming more apparent to me that some people don't realize the inherent activist stance of punk as a genre across art forms.
Love your bio and name tag btw!!
Kropotkinson (we are all ๐ต๐ธ)
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Laura Watts
in reply to BrightFlame ๐โ๏ธ๐ • • •That's so interesting to read. Thanks for posting!
From where i am sitting in Europe/Denmark it feels like a lot of the critical confusion is very US culture centric. #Solarpunk began in South America and southern Europe, and I think that matters to its valence.
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Laura Watts
in reply to Laura Watts • • •In Europe, I experience renewable energy, inc. community green energy, as normal and large scale, getting community benefits from corporate renewable energy is normal (although massively problematic) etc.
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Laura Watts
in reply to Laura Watts • • •I just wrote a definition of #solarpunk for an academic glossary of terms, but I refused to define it, instead wrote a solarounk short story... because, for me, solarpunk is something you _do_. It's more verb than noun...
sand14.com/solarpunk-is-not-foโฆ
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โSolarpunkโ is not for defining โ Sand14
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in reply to Laura Watts • • •@laurawatts
I love that: it's something you *do*
(tagged to read when I have a moment soon!)
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in reply to Sue is Writing Solarpunk ๐๐ฑ • • •Sue is Writing Solarpunk ๐๐ฑ
in reply to BrightFlame ๐โ๏ธ๐ • • •yes, indeed!
@laurawatts @AEMarling @drewthewho
#solarpunk zines โ free to download, also a little video so you can view online (plus learn paper magic!)
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in reply to Laura Watts • • •Solarpunk
Department of Arts and Cultural StudiesBrightFlame ๐โ๏ธ๐
in reply to Laura Watts • • •@laurawatts Your writing and contribution to solarpunk is wonderful! Quoting you:
"...solarpunk is known for its age-of-sail aesthetic, for its science-fiction-as-activism, for its sunlit exuberance, and for kicking over the anthills (Flynn 2019). Solarpunk is not for defining. Writing a theoretical definition of solarpunk in a typical passive, academic writing style would not be solarpunk. You have to do it. Solarpunk is more verb than noun."
@susankayequinn @AEMarling @drewthewho
Grow Fediverse
in reply to BrightFlame ๐โ๏ธ๐ • • •@BrightFlame ๐โ๏ธ๐ @Sue is Writing Solarpunk ๐๐ฑ @Alan Marling @Andrewism Great read, totally feeling the same wave length on ppl's confusion about #Solarpunk as a concept.
I hope Elijah comes to Fediverse, it's "very punk": Strangers making and sharing tech to communicate, with no expected ROI, just human connection. (yeah there's misery profiteers in the wider Fedi, but nowhere near the level of the silo corporate platforms like Bluesky, Tiktok, Meta, etc). Just the idea that there's all these independent admins pro bono running instances for total strangers is hella Solarpunk to me.
I sometimes wonder if ppl misunderstand Solarpunk because people think that the only way to rebel against oppression is fugly physical combat? Totally missing the innumerous times other strategies have succeeded too. The idea that rebellion can ONLY be direct violence seems like a fairy tale oppressive people tell to keep folks from trying other perfectly effective methods. Cuz violent oppressors already intuit how to deal with violent resistence. They don't know how to perceive of the impacts of concepts like malicious compliance, weaponized hope, undaunted kindness, or contageous self respect.
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in reply to Grow Fediverse • • •BlueSpruce
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Totally agree. The write-up was a great read, and it made me realize something: people donโt understand why depicting a better future is itself an act of resistance. The reason is because the capitalistsโ most effective method of self-preservation, the whole reason they are winning, is by convincing people that no other desirable system is possible.
One of capitalismโs greatest victories of the 20th century was the use of the Cold War to thoroughly entrench the idea in the West that there are only two possible modern political-economic systems: 1) capitalism and 2) authoritarian single-party centrally-planned โcommunismโ (in quotes since I think itโs not what most communists think the word means, but itโs the only thing that most non-communists think it means).
Capitalists argue that if you donโt want the latter, you have to accept the former, there is no other way.
BlueSpruce
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Iโve never thought of truly hopeful futures as utopian (though cynical bate-and-switch utopias appear all the time in dystopias). The point of hopeful future stories, to me, is to depict something radically different from what we have today that actually works, at least as well as our current system seems to work for many still-comfortable people in it, and most likely at least a little better for the many who are not ok today.
The point is not to just make us feel good about the future, whatever that might bring. And the point is also not to tell a story about some characters who are resisting, like the characters are inspiration for our own resistance (though those stories can be useful too). When stories show specific models of non-capitalist, non-authoritarian political/economic/social systems, the telling of that story is itself the real-world act of resistance.
BlueSpruce
in reply to BlueSpruce • • •@growfediverse
Those in power weaponized doomerism to convince people that, even if our reality sucks, itโs the only thing possible. They argue that getting rid of any elements of capitalism means no functioning economy whatsoever. Criticize all you want, you still have to live with it.
Showing feasible alternatives is the counter-tactic. Showing what it means for workers to own businesses, for local communities to use other methods of public safety and justice, for representation by e.g. sortition beyond the control of money and influence, for collective decision-making by positive-sum consensus-building, etc.
Get people interested enough to look up the ideas, then they can see these things are already being done, that can be done now. Teaching people how to make the transition is important too. But they have to believe there are alternatives that can actually work. That breaks the stranglehold of the capitalist narrative. Then, people will build them.
DoomsdaysCW
in reply to BlueSpruce • • •"I sometimes wonder if ppl misunderstand #Solarpunk because people think that the only way to rebel against oppression is fugly physical combat? Totally missing the innumerous times other strategies have succeeded too. The idea that rebellion can ONLY be direct violence seems like a fairy tale oppressive people tell to keep folks from trying other perfectly effective methods. Cuz violent oppressors already intuit how to deal with violent resistence. They don't know how to perceive of the impacts of concepts like malicious compliance, weaponized hope, undaunted kindness, or contageous self respect." Exactly, @bluespruce!
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