• poVoq@slrpnk.netM
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    9 months ago

    While I think the article has the time-line and focus correct, it kind of glances over the fact that Solarpunk is one if not the only -punk suffix genres that can claim some legacy in the actual (anarchistic) punk movement, albeight or maybe especially because it does not really attempt to mimic the astethics of it.

    Steampunk doesn’t even pretend this, and Cyberpunk was rather modeled on the astethics of 1980ties street-punks as seen by non-involved middle class sci-fi authors. I think only cypherpunks can somewhat claim an similar legacy of thought as Solarpunk can.

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      9 months ago

      Agreed about the other genres. I think The Difference Engine might be steampunk’s only real claim to the suffix.

      I’ve also seen an argument that the cyberpunk genre itself was punk because it pushed back on mainstream sci-fi of the time that had a theme of technology fixing everything, or better living through science. That cyberpunk made the argument that technology could change what we are, but it wouldn’t fix who we are, and it would be mostly used to consolidate power and exploit. There’s so much science fiction written that I really don’t have a sense of overarching themes at that scale, but if you buy that, then you could argue that the mainstream sci-fi was kind of doing the corporations’ work for them and that cyberpunk flipped the script.

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      9 months ago

      Is there somewhere I can read more about the anarchist history of the term? Also how is punk actually defined in this context? I have been confused about that for a while.