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It Could Happen Here Weekly 17

Behind the Bastards

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Solar Punk - A Visionary, Utopian Politics

We see solar punk as a visionary, utopian pol s and aesthetic that critically engages the reality of capitalist catastrophe while maintaining a radical optimism about humanity's hopes for a communal, ecological future. So that means reclaiming pieces of the past, prepre capitalist culture. That means material accountability for old practices, and it also means radical adaptability towards new ones. But we do think th there's a kind of a latent horizontalism, a latent anarchistic politics in a lot of the aesthetics around solar punk. And so a as a as a ive, as an aesthetic that is being defined collaboratively by people on line and and elsewhere.

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