#postcapitalism — Public Fediverse posts

GMBC ep02 - Tea Monks and Robots: Exploring Hope Punk in Becky Chambers' Robot and Monk Duology #beckychambers #teamonk #monkandrobot #duology #scifi #cozyscifi #lgbtqiascifi #utopia #postindustrial #postcapitalism #solarpunk #scifriread https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

GMBC ep02 - Tea Monks and Robots: Exploring Hope Punk in Becky Chambers' Robot and Monk Duology #beckychambers #teamonk #monkandrobot #duology #scifi #cozyscifi #lgbtqiascifi #utopia #postindustrial #postcapitalism #solarpunk #scifriread https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

GMBC ep02 - Tea Monks and Robots: Exploring Hope Punk in Becky Chambers' Robot and Monk Duology #beckychambers #teamonk #monkandrobot #duology #scifi #cozyscifi #lgbtqiascifi #utopia #postindustrial #postcapitalism #solarpunk #scifriread https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

GMBC ep02 - Tea Monks and Robots: Exploring Hope Punk in Becky Chambers' Robot and Monk Duology #beckychambers #teamonk #monkandrobot #duology #scifi #cozyscifi #lgbtqiascifi #utopia #postindustrial #postcapitalism #solarpunk #scifriread https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

GMBC ep02 - Tea Monks and Robots: Exploring Hope Punk in Becky Chambers' Robot and Monk Duology #beckychambers #teamonk #monkandrobot #duology #scifi #cozyscifi #lgbtqiascifi #utopia #postindustrial #postcapitalism #solarpunk #scifriread https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

Leaving you all with an excerpt from an essay from 2022, before I re-boost posts from yesterday and boost quoted posts. TY to @MaQuest , @jblue , @rooftopjaxx and everyone who shared and/or chimed in! #ABetterWorldIsPossible !

Can Solarpunk Save the World?

The choice, then, is clear: solarpunk, or barbarism.

by Stacey Balkan, November 15, 2022

Excerpt: "Offering an imperfect but clear-eyed hope, rather than so many apocalyptic nightmares, is a key goal of solarpunk fiction. While many critics argue that radical change will only come about following the total collapse of Earth systems—in other words, the apocalypse imagined by popular climate fiction and much recent zombie fare—it has become increasingly evident that such alarmism possesses no political utility.

"Furthermore, in a discussion about climate and energy justice, we must acknowledge that, for many #Indigenous communities, the 'apocalypse' happened long ago: during the long 16th-century, when an expanding plantation system expedited the removal and enslavement of millions of #BIPOC persons in order to accommodate the #hyperconsumption of imperial centers like London.

"Apocalypse, as a geohistorical event or literary trope, is thus not central to solarpunk. That is, solarpunk doesn’t require an environmental apocalypse, because most solarpunk practitioners understand the material legacies of #SettlerColonialism as on ongoing apocalypse.

"Consequently, solarpunk worlds are not necessarily postapocalyptic (nor set in the future), but they are #postextractivist. Responding to the ethos of #extractive #capitalism — whereby the colonized exist as 'fuel … for the sake of someone else’s good life' — solarpunk imaginaries demand a thorough dismantling of fossil-fueled modernity and the material infrastructures (and attendant cultural expressions) that occasioned our comprehensive dependence on prehistoric carbon. Quite logically then, solarpunk also rejects the techno-utopian project of saving industrial modernity via increasingly hubristic geoengineering schemes."

Full essay:
https://www.publicbooks.org/can-solarpunk-save-the-world/

#SolarPunkSunday #PostCapitalism #SharingEconomy #Earth4All #SettlerColonialism #ExtractiveIndustries #TechBros

“The lesson of the #EastIndiaCompany is not only that #corporations can behave monstrously abroad. It is that they can flex their powers at home, too. Like the East India Company before them, today’s #giants are using their lobbying dollars and closeness to power to warp our #politics and our #economy as they take on the powers and functions of a #nationstate .”
#postcapitalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/opinion/ai-power-lobbying-military-britain-east-india-company.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9FA.rHyW.tvGISRbdUfKB&smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Urbánika’s #SolarPunk Bus Tour and Video Course on the #Commons

By David Bollier, July 24, 2024

Excerpt: "The course is free to access, and the bus was developed, thanks to donations by thousands of people. The course is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license, so that it can be reproduced, remixed, and shared at no cost. In the notes section underneath each video, there are links to resources, weblinks, a self-test review of the content, and an invitation to apply one’s knowledge of commons to the real world. Schools are invited to use the videos in their teaching about commons. Social-action groups may find the videos useful in reflecting on their own organizational dynamics.

"The #PostCapitalism and the Commons video series is a follow-up to a lighter series of educational videos produced by Urbánika two years ago. This series, '#Commoning101 – Learning Pills,' (with #Spanish subtitles), is a series of amusing virtual-reality animations that introduce the commons to viewers in short gulps. The animations feature a space alien, Kin, who engages with an avatar version of me (looking twenty years younger!) in conversations about commons.

"Urbánika plans to use the videos – especially the first series, 'PostCapitalism and the Commons' – as part of an educational bus tour that will soon travel to twenty cities in seven #LatinAmerican countries.

"For this, the group has crowdfunded funds to create a state-of-the-art, climate-friendly 'SolarPunk bus.' This full-size bus has many eco-features as a rain water harvesting system, wind turbine, a rooftop biofilter (to treat gray water to make it drinkable), and dry toilet. There is a black soldier fly #biodigester for organic waste and a vertical garden for food production, among other tech features. The bus will function as a mobile school and home throughout the course of the tour, which aims to 'facilitate the emergence of neighborhoods as urban commons.' It will also encourage the use of 'open source Web 3.0 tech that can help people break free from hierarchical dependencies of the government and the markets.' "

Learn more [includes links to videos]:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-07-24/urbanikas-solarpunk-bus-tour-and-video-course-on-the-commons/

#SolarPunkSunday #SolarPunkBusTour #SolarPunkBus #ImmersiveActivism #VideoCourse #UrbanCommons #PostCapitalist