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Solarpunk: A Container for More Fertile Futures

Solarpunk 🌅

My original essay from Solarpunk Magazine’s first issue. It examines the rise of Solarpunk as a creative force for sustainable futures.
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November 7, 2023
Party at 300?

Blogging 👨‍💻, Weeknotes 🗓️

I have a feeling that next week’s Weeknotes (299) will be the soft launch of my new blog layout and theme. Maybe I’ll throw a party at 300.
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June 11, 2023
Future Music

AI 🤖, Music 🎶, Weeknotes 🗓️

I am fixated on the vocal static. I hear at the edges the AI-anna Grande model unspooling into pure material waveform. This is future music.
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April 23, 2023
Looking in a Hole?

AI 🤖, Weeknotes 🗓️

What have pundits been doing with their time for a decade? Looking in a hole in the ground?
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February 19, 2023
Cultural Fracking | CMF 2023 Annual Trends Report

Announcement❗, World Running 🌐

I was interviewed by the Canada Media Fund, as they have included a *whole chapter* on Cultural Fracking in their 2023 Annual Trends Report.
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January 31, 2023
What the Hell Is Going On? | 2243

Culture 🏛️, Permanently Moved 🔊

Steady state capitalist realism and cultural fracking has got so bad they are rebooting the damn moon landings.
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December 3, 2022
Mickey in the Metaverse | 2235

Dimensino 👾, Permanently Moved 🔊, World Running 🌐

As a symbol of the copyright regime of the 20thC. A permissive Mickey in the metaverse seems like an interesting experiment to try.
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October 1, 2022
Wolves Lane

Solarpunk 🌅, Weeknotes 🗓️

The cactus house is laid out like a body, a womb, a heart and stepping stones representing the cardinal directions and the elements.
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May 22, 2022
Post Normal | 2219

Permanently Moved 🔊

New Zine, Post Normal Fiction, A Brief History of Modernity, and our need to explore what’s beyond or after it.
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May 14, 2022
Speed Barbie, Racer Knight | 2217

Culture 🏛️, Permanently Moved 🔊

The New Barbie Movie, Cultural Fracking, my aphantasia and why Speed Racer is a much better movie than The Dark Knight
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April 30, 2022
Remember This?

Social Media 💉, Weeknotes 🗓️

We live in a horrendous locked down hell world of closed silos and vertical computing platforms. Social media is doomed.
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March 6, 2022
Mostly Inside

Weeknotes 🗓️

Today I went up into town from Streatham to meet some folks in Covent Garden for breakfast/brunch.
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November 21, 2021
Skill Acquisition

Software 👨‍💻, Weeknotes 🗓️

I’ve had a weird week. It’s consisted of lurching from one small thing to another. Never settling on anything for more than 5/10mins.
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June 27, 2021
This is All Happening Right Now | Interdependence.fm

Announcement❗, Press 📰, Solarpunk 🌅

I was a guest on Holly Hendon and Mat Dryhurst’s excellent podcast Interdependence.fm this week.
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November 18, 2020
SOLARPUNK – Life in the Future Beyond the Rusted Chrome of Yestermorrow

Narratives 📖, Solarpunk 🌅

SLIDES AND SPEAKER NOTES FOR A TALK ON SOLARPUNK GIVEN AT UNSOUND FESTIVAL, KRAKOW, POLAND OCT 2019. JAY SPRINGETT IS A SOLARPUNK, THEORIST AND STRATEGIST FOR HYBRID ENVIRONMENTS. HIS CONCERNS ARE WITH CULTURE, HUMANS AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT. JAY WRITES ONLINE UNDER THE HANDLE @THEJAYMO IF YOU’D LIKE TO SUPPORT THIS BLOG AND ITS VARIOUS PROJECTS,…
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September 13, 2020
The Tenth Man | 2026

Permanently Moved 🔊

Toxic Sediment, 20th Century Media, and spelunking for gems amongst it.
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July 3, 2020

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