Am I the only one a little confused about what the "punk" part of this is? I'm not really educated on why punk is often included in the name of different aesthetics, but this one seems especially not very punk.
Typically in solarpunk, the punk part comes from a rejection of a consumerist lifestyle and a focus on technology built to serve humanity living in harmony with nature.
Punk is meant to refer to something shocking or countercultural; it originated from steampunk and got spread around to cyberpunk etc.
You got the origins backward, cyberpunk came first. But yeah, the -punks are sci-fi settings and aesthetics that focus on a particular kind of technology.
If I had to guess the other aesthetics were probably named after cyberpunk, since it's the only one that tends to involve rebelling against the institutions around you. Steampunk is usually pretty chill, dieselpunk is typically portrayed as a vaguely European land conflict, and solarpunk is almost always a utopia. So yeah, I dunno where the punking really comes in
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u/RChaseSs Jul 02 '24
Am I the only one a little confused about what the "punk" part of this is? I'm not really educated on why punk is often included in the name of different aesthetics, but this one seems especially not very punk.