Solarpunk

The Anthropocene has emerged as the dominant conception of the contemporary moment, centering the human individual as both responsible for and bearing the responsibility to counteract its numerous interrelated socioeconomic, political, and environmental issues including the staggering loss of biodiversity across the globe and the reality of anthropogenic climate change. This constitutes a significant psychological impasse that disempowers and disenfranchises humans living in this epoch, discouraging any substantive individual effort. Drawing on the posthuman feminist philosophy of theorists such as Rosi Braidotti and Stacy Alaimo together with a reflection of the power of science fiction as a literature of cognitive estrangement highlighting social issues, this paper reads “The Boston Hearth Project” by T.X. Watson as a short story demonstrative of an ethos of community and hope that resists the negative affects and oppressive social structures of the Anthropocene. I argue in the course of this paper that theorists and activists alike must turn to alternative narratives, such as those modelled in the emergent science fiction genre of solarpunk, in order to reject essentializing and individualizing forces and think multiply in order to realize meaningful resistance in a time of increasing fragmentation in society and destruction of the more-than-human world.

https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol18/iss1/2

We invite proposals for chapters on tabletop roleplaying games in relation to utopia and utopianism. The theme may be construed broadly, encompassing for example hopepunk, solarpunk, and other -punks, transformative justice and anti-carceral feminism, queer publics and queer world-making, colonialism and decoloniality, Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurisms, climate change and ecological crisis, critical humanism and posthumanism, dystopia and heterotopia, imaginary voyages and philosophical novels, or counter-mapping and radical cartography. Please submit proposals by 1 February 2021 to [email protected], along with a brief bio (or a CV). Innovative formats and approaches and informal queries are very welcome.

With the growing number of urbanized areas in our world, one of the biggest issues that we face is the loss of green spaces. Cities are frequently decried as concrete jungles and with much of the human population living within these spaces, we as a species face a serious disconnect from Mother Nature. This paper addresses one of the ways we may be able to solve this disconnect, along with increasing biodiversity within cities by building our gardens not out but up. This paper should hopefully be able to aid those wishing to create a vertical garden within their own space, with resources being included at the end.

ll successo planetario de "Il racconto dell’ancella" di Atwood ha rilanciato il genere distopico con l’apparire di personagge che portano con sé una visione di radicale rinnovamento.
Lì dove si mescolano utopia e distopia nascono semi di speranza