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Hmm there’s now enough here to write up. Usually this is the stage where I’ve convinced myself a solution exists and lose interest for a year before writing a long post about it when I’m in a random heavy-lift mood looking for something to do.
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A rude caricature is forming in my head: “everything is about re-enchantment except re-enchantment itself, which is about Nazi aesthetics”
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The thread through my stuff that leads here would be: Return of the Barbarian (2011) Welcome to the Future Nauseous (2012) The Locust Economy (2013) You Are Not an Artisan (2013) Premium Mediocre (2017) Against Waldenponding (2019) Domestic Cozy (2019) Internet of Beefs (2020)
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Update 10 months later… yeah re-enchantment is toast as a usefully general concept. It was promising but too loaded with reactionary primitivist baggage to be of much use to anyone else. Poison-pilled as far as I’m concerned.
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what do you think of solarpunk? it strikes me as reenchantment without the primitivism
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I think Karl Schroeder's "Degrees of Freedom" is a must-read. not entirely sure if he considers it solarpunk but to me it fits the aesthetic. in general when I think of solarpunk I see it as a sustainability-first vision, but chaotic and forward-looking.
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