Solarpunk and Storytelling w/ Phoebe Wagner

Опубликовано: 24 Июль 2026
на канале: From the Periphery

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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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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