UNIT 5 OVERVIEW.
In the fiction applying this imaginary, anthropogenic climate change leads to a long-term destruction of the biosphere, which again leads to the construction of life-saving artificial atmospheres with humanly controlled climates. These artificial atmospheres typically have two shapes. On one hand, cli-fi contains a range of local, air-conditioned bubbles. On the other hand, we find world-sized, terraformed globes in which exclusion (as in the bubbles) is not a necessary means for survival. The cultural history of the imaginary goes back to the biblical myth of Noah, where we find a small group seeking protection from the weather of a harsh outer world in a constructed inner climate.
In the fiction applying this imaginary, anthropogenic climate change leads to a long-term destruction of the biosphere, which again leads to the construction of life-saving artificial atmospheres with humanly controlled climates. These artificial atmospheres typically have two shapes. On one hand, cli-fi contains a range of local, air-conditioned bubbles. On the other hand, we find world-sized, terraformed globes in which exclusion (as in the bubbles) is not a necessary means for survival. The cultural history of the imaginary goes back to the biblical myth of Noah, where we find a small group seeking protection from the weather of a harsh outer world in a constructed inner climate.
INFORMATIONAL SOURCES
- Solarpunk: The Fiction of the Future by Odin Halvorson
- "What is Solarpunk?" from Solarpunk Anarchists: Imagining and Building Better Futures
from Robert McSweeney's article "Explainer: Nine Tipping Points That Could Be Triggered By Climate Change" (10 Feb 2020)
VIDEO GALLERY.
Dear Alice (A Solarpunk Commercial for...Chobani)
Dir. by Bjørn-Erik Aschim Erik Aschim | 2021
Dir. by Bjørn-Erik Aschim Erik Aschim | 2021