IMO it’s good at its roots but can be easily coopted, it’s like cottagecore in that sense.
Twitter solarpunk is cooked because they all use screenshots from the same yogurt ad with lines like “a business is only as good as its people” lmao
Exactly, it’s basically been reduced down to just the aesthetics which can be readily repackaged and recuperated. It’s a floating signifier, waiting for a brand to attach to and be capitalized on. But since there’s something fundamentally good at its core, I still see value in it.
Cottagecore was a lesbian aesthetic about escaping heteronormative society and going off grid. It got turned into a tradwife aesthetic about neo lebensraum. Solarpunk is similar, but the way it gets coopted is via green capitalism washing away the revolutionary parts of solarpunk and replacing them with consumerism of the eco friendly variety.
Wait the lesbians did cottagecore first? Thats cool and makes me feel better about it. There’s a minecraft youtuber I like called GeminiTay who’s wlw and before she came out she was doing Cottagecore builds in Minecraft and people found it unsuprising when she came out as bi because of this lol.
It’s alright, auntie, lol.
For cottagecore - I think it’s the fascist idealization of a past that never really existed. I’ve never really thought about the connection between cottagecore and solar punk, but I could see both having a twee idealized rural life aesthetic (with solar punk adding a dash of sci-fi)
