Wait, was Cruelty Squad made by BMF?
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It’s a movement insofar as it’s an aesthetic that people want to see around them, but have no ideological understanding of how to get there or if that’s even something people should strive for in general.
The answer for these people is to move to Chongqing
What other people have said.
What happens when your “movement” is an aesthetic with zero theoretical grounding?
It gets co-opted and commodified to be used for the consolation of the oppressed classes with the intent of duping them while robbing the movement of its revolutionary edge by vulgarising it.Now, if only someone had written about this exact phenomenon in theory a century ago so that we would be aware of this and we’d be able to take steps to outflank it.
It’s also re-inventing the wheel because certain districts of 重庆 has looked like an urban version of that for decades.
I love how we have one person in this thread vehemently saying “this is utopian fantasy nonsense that could never happen because it takes too much work” and another person saying “this already exists in china here are pictures”
The vast majority of the Tumblr libs who love solarpunk yogurt ads would hate this because it’s in China.
Whoa, how’d you type the phonetic spelling over the Mandarin?
it’s an online utopian fandom. anarchism without the an, the arch, or the ism.
It’s a vibes based “movement” the point is the put a lot of pretty aesthetic into the world and thus manifest it as a future.
Noone yet in this thread addressing how “gooner” relates to any of this lol, or is it just being used as ornamental punctuation to end a series of somewhat related nouns
it’s emotional and social gooning, an anti-agitprop that instead of edging you toward revolution, functions as an outlet and masturbatory hope. the emotional equivalent of reaching right for the prostate stimulator. idk maybe
rubbing yrself raw to the prospect of a rooftop garden
yall lack a sense of political poetics
Don’t touch the grass that way.
Yeah I was VERY confused why “gooner” is there I swear to god its just the ultimate buzzword right now.
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either solarpunk came from something awful or thr word is “nostalgia gooner” and means someone who jerks off over nostalgia?
I don’t think gooner is the right thing for basically any situation
Now im not a solarpunk fan myself but I have seen many leftwing/leftish people seen positive on it. Is it good / bad ? I havent really looked into it beyond surface level.
IMO it’s good at its roots but can be easily coopted, it’s like cottagecore in that sense.
Twitter solarpunk is cooked because they all use screenshots from the same yogurt ad with lines like “a business is only as good as its people” lmao
Exactly, it’s basically been reduced down to just the aesthetics which can be readily repackaged and recuperated. It’s a floating signifier, waiting for a brand to attach to and be capitalized on. But since there’s something fundamentally good at its core, I still see value in it.
Goblincore stay winning- the nouveau art nouveau
Sorry for being a boomer mom-type character archetype. Could you explain how solarpunk and cottagecore connect and why they are good but can be coopted? I honestly need to google cottagecore again; I remember hearing the word, but I’m not that online yet, I guess.
Cottagecore was a lesbian aesthetic about escaping heteronormative society and going off grid. It got turned into a tradwife aesthetic about neo lebensraum. Solarpunk is similar, but the way it gets coopted is via green capitalism washing away the revolutionary parts of solarpunk and replacing them with consumerism of the eco friendly variety.
Thank you, that makes sense. It’s nice to see young people respect their elders :^)
great post
I think if I just continue cooking my mind with enough Brace rants I’ll eventually become a good version of BMF
The sad part for me is that BMF was always completely legible to me, but I don’t think I can cook myself enough to ever actually post like that because I despise obscure jargonism.
Please continue your journey to become whitehat BMF.
Nah I think what set BMF apart was not so much the jargon, but assuming that the reader could keep up with immense amounts of subtext and implied meaning; usually their posts were long sequences of quotations followed by replies that imply several layers of contradicting and layered cultural criticisms, which you could only keep up with if you synchronized your mind to theirs in a fundamental way.
Wait the lesbians did cottagecore first? Thats cool and makes me feel better about it. There’s a minecraft youtuber I like called GeminiTay who’s wlw and before she came out she was doing Cottagecore builds in Minecraft and people found it unsuprising when she came out as bi because of this lol.
I think a really strong example of this is the fact that the most popular thing to showcase the solarpunk aesthetic is a freaking ad for a yoghurt brand that comes in disposable plastic packaging…
Tradwives really out here dressing like lesbians, except much like a heterosexual trad-douche, they really struggle with like everything aesthetically
It’s alright, auntie, lol.
For cottagecore - I think it’s the fascist idealization of a past that never really existed. I’ve never really thought about the connection between cottagecore and solar punk, but I could see both having a twee idealized rural life aesthetic (with solar punk adding a dash of sci-fi)
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It’s an aesthetic. And yes aesthetics are political, but I think this is one of those ones that can go either way, in fact I feel that way about most “Punk” genres. There’s been progressive and reactionary cyberpunk, steampunk, whatever.
Some of solar punk seems to be “hey what if we did Soviet brutalist commie blocks but with more greenery”, so a more naturalistic and whimsical version of dense, organized, urban-proletariat society, which I think is kinda cool. Other times it looks more like an idealized version of what “techno-feudalism” would look like, a quaint, pastoral, sustainable version of being petite-bourgeois.
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It’s also telling that one of the major artworks used to “promote” the aesthetic is literally a yoghurt commercial, but since it’s a cute animation, it gets a pass.
a quaint, pastoral, sustainable version of being petite-bourgeois.
Or as I like to call it, “Hobbitcore.”
I think it’s fine. The societal changes necessary to address climate change are so wild that people literally lack capacity to imagine them. Solarpunk is an art genre to fill in that space.
Solarpunk is good this is internet poisoning.
how the fuck is it hitlerite adjacent are solar panels made of racism particles or something
I think it’s just kinda milquetoast at worst
edit: I forgot about lithium, ok I can see it
Idk anything about solar punk, but i sure do know a lot of eco-fascists that use “there’s too many people!” as an excuse to implement eugenics against minorities and developing nations.
to be fair to that particular picture it does have a city in the background which is usually the thing that’s entirely missing from the single family ranch home surrounded by pastures in the real grim solar panels / our fertilizer is other the undesirables depictions
Sodium ion batteries are the new up and coming battery technology that removes the need for lithium, sodium is abundant.
https://www.ft.com/content/826fb9bb-b27f-4c68-ad4b-a54ad74713c9
I think it’s been somewhat co-opted by ecofash, apparently it appeals to people who want a tradwife living on a vast property but still have their Xbox and Bazingamobile. Lebenstraum vibes with a Studio Ghibli coat of paint.
The edit 180
lithium is basically Hitler particles what can I say
BMF type beat
profoundly deranged tweet, and yet, true in every word
I have no idea what any of it means
certainly makes sense that they made cruelty squad which is a deranged game, and yet, true in every frame
Ville is so freakin’ sazed… :cruelty-handler:
no idea who this villecallio fellow is, but that’s a really 3 bells alarm chili the morning after burning your asshole spicy take
When I think solar punk, I think Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization
