OCCULTURE 122: Gordon White & Jay Springett // Solarpunk, Hopepunk & The Magic of Envisioning a Better Future
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02/12/19 • 64 min
Most of you know Gordon. He’s been here before, back in episode 66, and he’s the man behind the magic at the Rune Soup blog and podcast. He’s also the author of three books, StarShips, The Chaos Protocols and Pieces of Eight. And some of you in the Twitterverse surely know Jay. He’s @thejaymo out in those parts. Jay will tell us a bit about himself up front in the chat here, so I won’t repeat any of that, but this chat is focused on one of Jay’s chief concerns and passions - and one of Gordon’s as well - and that is the movement known as solarpunk.
What is solarpunk? Well, it’s exactly what it sounds like, and we’ll explain it in the discourse you’re about to hear.
One caveat before we get to it, though: Jay and Gordon only had an hour to chat, so no Patreon extension here. Gordon and Jay were actually hanging out together down on Gordon’s farm, which Gordon had just returned to after some crazy wildfires in his area, and I did not want to monopolize much of their time, so we covered as much as we could in that hour, with the hopes of giving some context to this solarpunk thing and also laying the foundation for the ideas both in the narrative of this show and, more importantly, in your consciousness.
RESOURCES
- Gordon’s website
- Gordon on Twitter
- Jay’s website
- Jay on Twitter
- SolarPunks.net
- Gordon’s blog on hopepunk
- Recent talk from Jay on solarpunk
- Jay’s solarpunk reference guide
- Article on the political dimensions of solarpunk
- Vox article on hopepunk
- Solarpunk manifesto
DONATE
If recurring monthly support via Patreon isn’t your thing, we do accept one time-donations via PayPal, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple. Every little bit helps.
MERCH
Tees, tanks, hoodies, crops, hats. Check ‘em out on our website or at our Etsy shop.
SOCIAL
MUSIC
Vestron Vulture - “I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)”
Occams Laser - “Martyr Farker (Occulture Edit)”
PRODUCTION & LICENSING
This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Executive Producers: Mike K., Carter Y., Mauricio G., Alyssa S., Daniel R., Kelly C., Bruce H., David G., Jeremy V., Marcelo T., Christopher B., Leonidas, Timothy W., Caleb C., Nick F., Michael Q., Jamaica J., Mute Ryan, John W., Paul S., Andy E., Colleen F., Blake S., Catalina M., Saliyah S., Michael W., Raymond G., Kevin C., Michael S.
REMINDER
Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.
Most of you know Gordon. He’s been here before, back in episode 66, and he’s the man behind the magic at the Rune Soup blog and podcast. He’s also the author of three books, StarShips, The Chaos Protocols and Pieces of Eight. And some of you in the Twitterverse surely know Jay. He’s @thejaymo out in those parts. Jay will tell us a bit about himself up front in the chat here, so I won’t repeat any of that, but this chat is focused on one of Jay’s chief concerns and passions - and one of Gordon’s as well - and that is the movement known as solarpunk.
What is solarpunk? Well, it’s exactly what it sounds like, and we’ll explain it in the discourse you’re about to hear.
One caveat before we get to it, though: Jay and Gordon only had an hour to chat, so no Patreon extension here. Gordon and Jay were actually hanging out together down on Gordon’s farm, which Gordon had just returned to after some crazy wildfires in his area, and I did not want to monopolize much of their time, so we covered as much as we could in that hour, with the hopes of giving some context to this solarpunk thing and also laying the foundation for the ideas both in the narrative of this show and, more importantly, in your consciousness.
RESOURCES
- Gordon’s website
- Gordon on Twitter
- Jay’s website
- Jay on Twitter
- SolarPunks.net
- Gordon’s blog on hopepunk
- Recent talk from Jay on solarpunk
- Jay’s solarpunk reference guide
- Article on the political dimensions of solarpunk
- Vox article on hopepunk
- Solarpunk manifesto
DONATE
If recurring monthly support via Patreon isn’t your thing, we do accept one time-donations via PayPal, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple. Every little bit helps.
MERCH
Tees, tanks, hoodies, crops, hats. Check ‘em out on our website or at our Etsy shop.
SOCIAL
MUSIC
Vestron Vulture - “I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)”
Occams Laser - “Martyr Farker (Occulture Edit)”
PRODUCTION & LICENSING
This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Executive Producers: Mike K., Carter Y., Mauricio G., Alyssa S., Daniel R., Kelly C., Bruce H., David G., Jeremy V., Marcelo T., Christopher B., Leonidas, Timothy W., Caleb C., Nick F., Michael Q., Jamaica J., Mute Ryan, John W., Paul S., Andy E., Colleen F., Blake S., Catalina M., Saliyah S., Michael W., Raymond G., Kevin C., Michael S.
REMINDER
Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.
Previous Episode
OCCULTURE 121: Jasun Horsley // Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary, Wicca & The Left-Hand Path
Just when you thought it was safe to turn on the ol’ self-grappling show, we’re venturing back into the dark side of occultism with Jasun Horsley.
Jasun was here just a couple episodes ago talking about the first half of his new book, The Vice of Kings: How Socialism, Occultism and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse. That chat focused primarily on the Fabian Society and their brand of socialism and how it has shaped, or helped shape, modern society and the culture of abuse that seems to have grown up in it.
This time around, Jasun is going to dig a bit deeper into the role occultism plays in this, particularly the brand of occultism made popular by Aleister Crowley. We also touch on the left-hand path as social engineering, and Crowley’s influence on Timothy Leary and Wicca.
It is quite a thought-provoking chat, so make of it what you will. Pun intended. Of course, any healthy discourse and discussion is encouraged.
PATREON EXTENSION
Listen at patreon.com/occulture
- Returning to nature & nature worship
- Sex magick and gender & sexuality liberation
- More about pedophilia in the DSM-5
- The influence of primitivism on Crowley & the Fabian Society
- Whether conversations like this help or only aid in the normalization of behaviors
RESOURCES
DONATE
If recurring monthly support via Patreon isn’t your thing, we do accept one time-donations via PayPal, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple. Every little bit helps.
MERCH
Tees, tanks, hoodies, crops, hats. Check ‘em out on our website or at our Etsy shop.
SOCIAL
MUSIC
Vestron Vulture - “I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)”
Occams Laser - “Martyr Farker (Occulture Edit)”
PRODUCTION & LICENSING
This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Executive Producers: Mike K., Carter Y., Mauricio G., Alyssa S., Daniel R., Kelly C., Kaleb H., Bruce H., David G., Jeremy V., Marcelo T., Christopher B., Leonidas, Timothy W., Caleb C., Nick F., Michael Q., Jamaica J., Mute Ryan, John W., Paul S., Andy E., Colleen F., Blake S., Catalina M., Saliyah S., Michael W., Raymond G., Kevin C., Michael S.
REMINDER
Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.
Next Episode
OCCULTURE 123: Dr. Kasper Opstrup // Cultural Alchemy, Avant-Garde Social Movements & The Invisible Insurrection
Hopefully by now you’ve heard the last episode with Gordon White and Jay Springett, because it is a great companion piece to the conversation you’re about to hear with our guest, Dr. Kasper Opstrup.
Kasper is a writer and researcher of what he calls radical culture, specializing in concatenations of art and literature, radical politics, and occultism as counterculture and underground phenomenon. Kasper published his PhD in book form back in November 2017. It’s called The Way Out: Invisible Insurrections and Radical Imaginaries in the UK Underground 1961-1991.
His book charts a hidden history of experiments with cultural engineering, with the hopes of expanding current discussions of art, media, politics, radical education and the occult revival. Along the way, we encounter a series of figures – including William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Genesis P-Orridge and Alexander Trocchi – all of whom blurred the lines between inner and outer, the invisible and the material. But instead of turning things upside down, the world was to be changed from the inside out.
PATREON EXTENSION
Listen at patreon.com/occulture
- Using fiction and images to navigate a territory
- Image politics and the production of myth
- The Situationist idea of détournement and its similarity to cut-up
- The consciousness consciousness
- Identity politics
- Immigration & psychogeography
- Foucault’s idea of the apparatus
- Becoming invisible & refusing identity
RESOURCES
DONATE
If recurring monthly support via Patreon isn’t your thing, we do accept one time-donations via PayPal, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple. Every little bit helps.
MERCH
Tees, tanks, hoodies, crops, hats. Check ‘em out on our website or at our Etsy shop.
SOCIAL
MUSIC
Vestron Vulture - “I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)”
Occams Laser - “Martyr Farker (Occulture Edit)”
PRODUCTION & LICENSING
This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Executive Producers: Mike K., Carter Y., Mauricio G., Alyssa S., Daniel R., Kelly C., Bruce H., David G., Jeremy V., Marcelo T., Christopher B., Leonidas, Timothy W., Caleb C., Nick F., Michael Q., Jamaica J., Mute Ryan, John W., Paul S., Andy E., Colleen F., Blake S., Catalina M., Saliyah S., Michael W., Raymond G., Kevin C., Michael S.
REMINDER
Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.
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