Hope, but not right away
This is more of a half-formed thought than a complete article, so bear with me, but I wanted to put it out there especially on this gloomsome spring day, where the sun is mostly hidden…
Happy Spring!
Hello, solarpunks! And HAPPY SPRING. Woot! Woot! It’s finally here! This year, it feels like the ancient Persian tradition of Nowruz are everywhere. Or, at least, it feels like they’ve popped up this week in…
What Does the Punk in Solarpunk Even Mean? Ariel & Christina Discuss
Why is solarpunk called solarPUNK? What is so punk about it, and does it have anything to do with the original meaning of punk… or cyberpunk, or steampunk, or any -punk for that matter? In…
Links Roundup
Here are some recent links from the interwebs that Ariel has been chewing over. Rethinking Masculinity: Teaching Men How to Love and Be Loved I have the softest soft spot for this sort of content,…
Pondering a Solarpunk Writing Group
Lately, both my thoughts and Ariel’s have turned to what to do for the Solarpunk Action Week that will be kicking off on Earth Day. She’s got tons of super ideas for her actions, but,…
Review: Animals in Translation
I (Ariel) recently listened to the audiobook version of Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson. It really shone a light on how far…
4.9: The Fantasies of Post-apocalyptic Dystopian Fiction, with Ariel Kroon
Classic, post-apocalyptic, dystopian fiction is a type of fantasy where we’re dreaming of starting over in an empty landscape from a societal and cultural slate wiped clean by some devastating event that we don’t have…
Feminist posthumanism?
definition of Human Cartesian dualism Philosophy guiding “disenchantment of nature” and colonialism, scientific racism definition of post-Human (past Enlightenment strictures of thought) cite some scholars like N Katherine Hayles, Cadigan, Braidotti, Alaimo, Haraway Why important…
Scrape
I want to talk about the recent news of Tumblr and WordPress parent company Automattic being in talks to sell user content to AI companies OpenAI and Midjourney to train their models on. All that…
It’s Time to End the Hero’s Journey
I don’t know about you, but I’ve absolutely had enough of it: the story structure known as the hero’s journey. It’s everywhere, from Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark to just about every…