Notice how solar-punk aesthetic envisions comfortable lives built on technology others created. It shows the result of labor without showing the labor itself.
Whenever I saw it, I presumed it was stuff built and maintained by those depicted, and we were seeing the in-between as conditions reached a point where the relative downtime was enough that it was the majority of experienced time.
Sure, but it’s equally possible to interpret it in other ways as well. That’s the problem here, how things are created is left up to your imagination. Solar-punk aesthetic is equally compatible with people enjoying the fruits of their own labour or a society built on slavery.
Ah, phrased that way, I can definitely see that. Especially considering how much of it comes from the West, where much of our material comforts comes from exploitative labor. Good criticism.
Notice how solarpunk aesthetic envisions a lifestyle completely at odds with its productive forces. No, I don’t think your household windmill is going to sustain that level of civilization! You will build 20 MW Chinese wind turbines and you will enjoy your high level of electricity consumption.
Notice how solar-punk aesthetic envisions comfortable lives built on technology others created. It shows the result of labor without showing the labor itself.
Whenever I saw it, I presumed it was stuff built and maintained by those depicted, and we were seeing the in-between as conditions reached a point where the relative downtime was enough that it was the majority of experienced time.
Sure, but it’s equally possible to interpret it in other ways as well. That’s the problem here, how things are created is left up to your imagination. Solar-punk aesthetic is equally compatible with people enjoying the fruits of their own labour or a society built on slavery.
Ah, phrased that way, I can definitely see that. Especially considering how much of it comes from the West, where much of our material comforts comes from exploitative labor. Good criticism.
Notice how solarpunk aesthetic envisions a lifestyle completely at odds with its productive forces. No, I don’t think your household windmill is going to sustain that level of civilization! You will build 20 MW Chinese wind turbines and you will enjoy your high level of electricity consumption.