I’ve noticed that at some point solarpunk imagery got infiltrated with jetson-style hovercars. Which besides being imaginary technology are kind of just an individualist, capitalist transposition of motonormativity (Automotive normativity) into science fiction. Futurism is one thing, but they aren’t very solarpunk. More of an Overwatch-liberalism type of fantasy.
I could critique this one for a paragraph too but I don’t feel like being so miserable :P And at least it doesn’t have any imaginary technology. So long as that’s a train in the… Tube thing.
I’ve done some solarpunk art myself and could ramble about it for many paragraphs if I let myself. Some people are concerned purely with aesthetics but I like to spend a lot of time thinking about how the society and culture and institutions in that imagined world inform the scene, directly and indirectly.
I’ve noticed that at some point solarpunk imagery got infiltrated with jetson-style hovercars. Which besides being imaginary technology are kind of just an individualist, capitalist transposition of motonormativity (Automotive normativity) into science fiction. Futurism is one thing, but they aren’t very solarpunk. More of an Overwatch-liberalism type of fantasy.
Maybe you’d like this piece by the same artist https://slrpnk.net/post/34365210
I could critique this one for a paragraph too but I don’t feel like being so miserable :P And at least it doesn’t have any imaginary technology. So long as that’s a train in the… Tube thing.
I’ve done some solarpunk art myself and could ramble about it for many paragraphs if I let myself. Some people are concerned purely with aesthetics but I like to spend a lot of time thinking about how the society and culture and institutions in that imagined world inform the scene, directly and indirectly.
I fully agree that the presence of flying cars wasn’t thought-through