The Fire These Times

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

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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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Blog: https://thefirethisti.me

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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:

    • Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
    • Parable of the Talent by Octavia Butler
    • Moon of the Crusted Snow: A Novel by Waubgeshig Rice
    • Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Language of Animacy

      • 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.

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