Comment by 🐦 JustASillyBird
It looks cool, but... I don't like the name. Where is the Punk?
Punk is an act of rebellion, or should be. A rejection of the current order. Solarpunk is Punk because it is a form of protest art against the fossil fuel status quo and the demands of line-go-up economics that demands growth at any cost. Solarpunk asserts that we can have a better future than that, that wealth does not have to come from environmental ruin. That, in a time when we are told to accept ruin as an unavoidable cost of modern life, *hope* becomes an act of rebellion.
Lunarpunk is... pretty. But I see no punk in it.
Feb 10 · 3 months ago
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🛞 MaAkThRsYoOySrHtKaAm · Feb 11 at 14:39:
Lunarpunk seems to be a very small, loosely-defined and aesthetic-based genre. It's going require more artists to jump in an produce their own two cents to offer up some context for an audience to infer meaning from. If any.
The use of this -punk suffix is a recurring point of discussion. I recently encountered something about Bruce Bethke in an interview saying that while coining the term "cyberpunk" he was pretty much trying to come up with a word that sounds good and appeals to youths. Something like that. It was meant to be marketable.
This wasn't what I read before, but there's a lot about it here:
— https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2023/1/9/bruce-bethke-the-first-cyberpunk
Then K.W. Jeter used "steampunk" to be a tongue-in-cheek variant of "cyberpunk" by focusing mainly on a change in the prevailing tech involved. So from very early on, the -punk suffix was more of an afterthought to denote a motif.
While cyberpunk has become synonymous with a sort of movement or at least a way of life, I like to view the nomenclature of these genres from a perspective of world building. Much like we've seen in Steampunk.
The world does not need to be inherently punk. Any "punk" elements may arise as a response resulting from conditions in that world. It may not even be a "good" response to those conditions. A certain motorcycle gang who won't hesitate to bottle someone in the head could be considered punk.
The word "punk" has largely been left for loose interpretation even since before it was ever tacked on to serve as a euphonic suffix. It raises a memory of cringing at a Thrasher magazine asking "What Is Punk?"
— https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/magazine/december-1995/
There are certainly some recurring and overlapping themes in spite of the alleged individualistic nature of it all. I can respect the poetic nature of it now, but I guess I figured at the time, when punk already seemed sort of passé, that trying to define punk... wasn't.
As for defining this genre, all such sentiment can easily be dismissed. Nor is anyone obligated to cast this particular aesthetic into a mold. The moon is most often unseen by day. By night offers only a reflection of the sun's light. We never do see the far side. Which I hear is far brighter in its hidden reflection. A light we'll never see.
Lunarpunk is not so new. The name may change. Like the cycles of the moon, the appearance may shift. But even in darkness, it's still there as it has always been.
Did you find yourself attracted to this idea of "lunarpunk"? If so, ask yourself if it was because you sought something to identify with. Did you seek for someone else to define you with their art? Did you want well defined rules and guidelines for what you are and are not, what you do and what you do not, what you believe, all dictated by some new lunar dogma?
Or perhaps you see some small, sparkling reflection of a part of you that you recognize once you see it and say "Yes. That's me."
Or maybe you're just down here on Earth, looking up in wonder as sirens blare at 3:00 AM.
If this lunarpoon thing only ever serves to offer a glimpse at mysteries beneath the surface I would find that to be as comforting as the quiet of a moonlit night and as exciting as the wild hunt on a full moon.
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🗡️ The_Jackal · Feb 12 at 05:55:
One of my first thoughts was how can this be taken, rearranged, and turned into something involving worlds of unimaginable terrors drenched in pretty colors of pink, purple, and green?
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Lunarpunk? — If solarpunk is a thing, what lunarpunk would have been? 🤔 … Wikipedia says, that it, apparently, already, exists. Ok then 😅
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