The speaker seems to reject the understanding of solar punk as strictly an aesthetic, but her deeper representation seems as simply a capture of contemporary anarcho-communism. The apparent contradiction exposes a dilemma, of whether solar punk offers novel concepts but all in the form of aesthetic, versus its simply being a new packaging of preexisting concepts.
I feel we have yet to be offered any new concepts beyond mere aesthetic.
The emphasis on implementing slow living and adapting indigenous practices seems particularly aligned with the spirit of solar punk, but they also are not novel to its development.
The speaker seems to reject the understanding of solar punk as strictly an aesthetic, but her deeper representation seems as simply a capture of contemporary anarcho-communism. The apparent contradiction exposes a dilemma, of whether solar punk offers novel concepts but all in the form of aesthetic, versus its simply being a new packaging of preexisting concepts.
I feel we have yet to be offered any new concepts beyond mere aesthetic.
The emphasis on implementing slow living and adapting indigenous practices seems particularly aligned with the spirit of solar punk, but they also are not novel to its development.