Hey! After seeing the main Anarchist sub on another instance be a bit of a shit show this one seems awesome and I do love me some solarpunk so this instance seems pretty cool as well.
But I gotta ask, is this instance anprim/anti-civ? I see green in the sub banner. It’s not really a worldview I vibe with since I’m very much pro-tech, pro-civ, pro-AI, pro-medicine and pro-LGBT & disability rights, so if the majority here are of that persuasion I should probably bail, don’t want to argue or start fights.
Okay, I read the article and I think it’s changed my perspective somewhat.
I can belive that the origin of Solar Punk, that is the genre of fiction that first bore that name, has little to do with Transhumanism. I don’t believe I have read the earliest Solar Punk fiction, and so I cannot make an accurate guess. At the same time the politics, philosophy, and social movement that’s been tied up with that name is what I’m really trying to talk about. I believe that the philosophy that underpins what is currently referred to as “Solar Punk”, as codified in the manifesto, is at least inspired or informed by either recent Anarcho-transhumanism or some previously novel synthesis of philosophies that includes Anarchism and Transhumanism. There’s just too much that Solarpunk philosophy has in common with the things my friends and the wider H+ community have been saying for years for me to believe it’s a coincidence.