Desert
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Anonymous Desert 2011 A German language translation of Desert can be found here: anarchistischebibliothek.org/library/anonym-desert, and a Greek language...

Solarpunk is innately about hope for a better future, but Desert is rather about the impossibility to save the world from climate change and the opportunities for anarchy that arise after the world’s end. It’s not as if Desert is devoid of hope, but rather it sees hope and possibilities within the end of the world. In that respect, there is some overlap with solarpunk, but I can’t help but think the nihilism doesn’t jive well with the solarpunk ethos.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s interesting as a text for capturing a lot of now common themes about 10 years earlier than most of the public discourse, but is otherwise pretty underwhelming.

    The latter half is also pretty uninteresting rambling of what appears to come from an aged member of the UK squatting scene.

    • Mambabasa@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Ah yeah? I kinda liked the latter half more than the first half which was all nihilism. I also disliked the bunk population science with its “overpopulation” line which appeared early in the book.