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81/ Solarpunk and Storytelling the Present and Future (With Phoebe Wagner)
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81/ Solarpunk and Storytelling the Present and Future (With Phoebe Wagner)

This is a conversation with Phoebe Wagner, co-editor of the 2017 book Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation alongside Bronte Christopher Wieland.

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Topics Discussed:

  • What is Solarpunk?

  • What is wrong with modern storytelling about the future?

  • Playing with words (example of Permablitzing)

  • Patriarchal tropes (‘men with guns’) and moving beyond them

  • Is knowledge power?

  • Working on the language we use

  • Is there a crisis of the imagination?

  • Going from fiction to non-fiction and action

  • Community-building

  • What’s punk about solarpunk

Works mentioned:

Recommended Books:

  • The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

  • Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown

  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Cover Art by Likhain for the Sunvault book

Music by Tarabeat.

Discussion about this podcast

Hauntologies
The Fire These Times
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