alxd writes @alxd@writing.exchange

My talk "Solarpunk, Cyberpunk, Popculture: technological narratives tl;dr" will premiere on HOPE2020 this Monday 27th of July 15:00 CEST / 11 EST!

https://scheduler.hope.net/hope2020/talk/N7ARAC/

My talk "Solarpunk, cyberpunk and popculture: Technological narratives tl;dr" got accepted to HOPE2020 ( https://hope.net )! I'll give it online between July 25 and August 2 this year!

#solarpunk #cyberpunk #popculture #HOPE2020

I'm slowly planning to start a blog focusing on #solarpunkReporting. Telling real stories, especially from the Global South in a #solarpunk way, seeing hope and patterns we can learn in the West in them.

I'm thinking going with a stand-alone blog and a medium.com mirror for bigger reach.

Do you have any recommendations, anything I should look into?

Have you heard about The Story Engine by Peter Chiykowski? http://www.storyenginedeck.com/

Together we made a free app to generate your own story prompts deck: https://cardcreator.storyenginedeck.com/

You can read more about it at my blog: https://alxd.org/the-story-engine-card-creator.html#the-story-engine-card-creator

#writing #writingPrompts #rpg #cards #app

Plot Economics

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/03/09/plot-economics/

A very over-intellectualized, but extremely important text on how we're losing plots and #narratives during a plague - and how it's a good moment to reinvent them.

Great chance for #solarpunk communities.

A lot of countries are talking about sustainability, sick leave and social infrastructure. We can build on that!

I'm reading articles like https://medium.com/@joschabach/flattening-the-curve-is-a-deadly-delusion-eea324fe9727 and I'm thinking: in Europe the virus might be bad, but in the US it may decimate tens of millions of people. Scar the whole society, a few generation, scar the whole culture, induce a societal PTSD.

Am I right to be terrified of that?

#coronavirus #covid19 #usa

What would happen if the world reacted to climate change like it’s reacting to the coronavirus?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90473758/what-would-happen-if-the-world-reacted-to-climate-change-like-its-reacting-to-the-coronavirus

#solarpunk

What if #solarpunk took all the #cyberpunk cliches and creatively remade them?

#solarpunkSamurai with farming tools instead of katanas.

#solarpunkHacker rigging a new antenna for their community.

#solarpunkFixer who knows who in the world works on a similar project.

#solarpunkChat

Finished translating Solarpunk Manifesto to Polish!

I realized we don't really have a word for "sustainable" in Polish, the closest being a "balanced development". It's not "maintainable" either, so we came up with a new word: "trwalny", aligning more with "lasting" than anything else.

https://alxd.org/manifest-solarpunka-pl.html#manifest-solarpunka

#solarpunk #manifesto #translation

What's the most #solarpunk #rpg you know?

My pick would be Legacy: Life Among The Ruins ( https://ufopress.co.uk/our-games/legacy-life-among-ruins/ ) - a post-post apocalypse where you rebuild the society, controlling both a single character and their faction. About few years pass between each session and you're encouraged to play generations of characters, seeing as previous choices influenced today.

Regarding #solarpunkArtContest , I got a reply from ArtStation saying that they won't collaborate for less than $25k. Well, I think that's out of the question, we'd need to work with smaller outlets. I'll try Behance as well.

#solarpunk #art

Continuing #solarpunk #art #contest idea: what if we pooled in some money (let's say a thousand USD) and approached some high-profile portfolio / art site, like https://www.artstation.com/ or https://www.behance.net/ ?

I think the biggest challenge would be convincing them to accept a Creative Commons license, but this could get Solarpunk at least as much attention as https://atomhawk.com/solarpunk if not more.

#solarpunkArtContest

Question to #art #mastoart people: do you know anyone with an experience organizing art contest? I was thinking about starting a Creative Commons #Solarpunk challenge (all entries must be CC-BY-SA or CC-BY) with some rewards.

Do you use any Static Site Generators? If so, which?

#webdev #web #blogging

I will give my talk "Technological Narratives: Solarpunk, Cyberpunk, Popculture" at this year's #36C3 ! Day 3 (29.12), 13:30, Art&Play Stage!

Hypothesis: corporations & hierarchies aren't more efficient than horizontal, organic forms of organization.

There's just more research into top-down management, which started with applying mathematics to management by the army in the second world war.

#solarpunk #anarchism

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