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Is having solar panels #solarpunk on its own?
Is a community element a requirement? Does there have to be anticapitalist elements? Non exploitation/extractive?
The visual vibe is pretty strong and defined, there's colour, light, plants and life merged in with diverse communities, centered around common spaces.
I (personally) haven't seen as much work on defining the core ethos. (links to reading for me to do to correct that greatly appreciated)
@rycuda I keep coming back to this because there's something I can't quite put words to - English is allergic to this mode of thinking. Countercultures are patterns, directional currents; the more subversive, the less hegemonic framework serves to capture them.
We are trained to attribute labels to discrete actions or possessions almost like we're part of a marketing team - which is part of why material culture is always spotlit. But cultures/ movements are a system of dynamic relations.
@rycuda Solarpunk when not truncated to a commodifiable visual aesthetic is about attributed impact & meaning (solar, ecologically-sustainable; punk, countercultural [to a context of an ecologically-unsustainable status quo].)
Within its set of values, any binary question immediately invokes a cascade of dependencies; a yes or no is contextual, because there's an attempt to appreciate natural complexity rather than hammer it into a simplified model for human ease (which risks GIGO.)
@rycuda So asking the question is itself sort of teasing at the massive divergence from mainstream cultural models - the "yes" to that question automatically demands an "if," and the "no" demands a "but." Where, when, how, why, for and by whom - not just "whether." And that makes it a pretty clever leaping-off point.
@cwicseolfor I'll make no claims to deserving 'cleverness'
It's a question I've had rattling around my head for a while and put it out into the world in hopes that others would have thoughts I could learn from. Which has paid off in spades.
I guess in that measure the question itself does lean in to the concept. There's many approaches, so many answers. There's many people with value to add, and value beyond that that can be born from the interactions and discussions between folks.
Thank you for your responses, especially for questioning the question. Stopping and thinking a while, in a new direction and with new insight was what I'd hoped for <3