Yeah, solarpunk is obviously a reactionary aesthetic. You can read the manifestos of its popularizers and very clearly see the class position of the art movement. How is lionizing the artisan and other middle classes, a reduction in productive capacity, and its desire to revive dead art styles outside of their historical context not reactionary? Stop with the solarpunk and “degrowth” and read more Soviet sci-fi and Chinese five-year plans.
whats wrong with degrowth? solely educational question if you feel like replying
Because good degrowth is indistinguishable from socialist five-year plans, and bad degrowth is indistinguishable from austerity. I don’t like Saitō, but from what I’ve read so far from Hickel, his work is worthwhile.
fucked up part is the art isn’t even good. it’s barely an art movement. it’s like, a subreddit at most.
Is solarpunk art solarpunk if it was generated by AI? - millennia old Zen koan
the famous fascist artform of, uh… landscape painting?
“EVERY PAINTING MUST FIT A QUOTA OF PEOPLE IN-FRAME” is a take that even actual state censors in communist countries didn’t have, truly we never stop innovating
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this one’s definitely focused on people, but I just found it and thought it was pretty cute - also the father’s fit here is impeccable
posting the rest of these on Imgur since I’m tired of waiting on the rate-limit: https://imgur.com/a/zVOjY4E
You’re missing the point. There are people in-frame often, just not the people who did the building. It’s just artists and other quirky culture aficionados whose lifestyle is founded on the work of laborers who are rarely considered and certainly don’t receive the same lionization.
