Art, Energy and Technology: the Solarpunk Movement

The purpose of this text is to reflect on the ways that science fiction allows criticism modern technology path. Imagination has allowed us think some ends world, but it been a privileged space. Creating other possible futures for our relationship with energy essential. Corporate renewable projects are emerging in corners planet where green capitalism not yet reached. In way, creation alternatives centralized and corporate models generation, distribution consumption must go through new potentialities inhabiting futures. Science literature genre inspired generations people assembling art techno-science as well dystopia. Solarpunk consolidated space counter-cultural hope allow beyond social-ecological injustices growing epistemic ontological violence. This derived from currents such Cyberpunk, Steampunk Dieselpunk, elucidating another between technology, society nature, nourished turn by climate sci-fi, Indigenous Afro-futurist fiction. sense, concept revision made three spheres: i) historical, based its digital origins; ii) literary, edited anthologies iii) academic, reflections raised. Finally, Manifesto, revealed at beginning 2020, shared order continue co-creation.