Solarpunk vs. Lunarpunk: The Evolution and Integration of these Movements by ManuAlzuru | Devcon SEA

[Music] [Music] hello everyone thanks for coming to today I'm going to talk a little bit about the solar Punk versus lunar Punk the evolution and integration of these movements so before we talk about solar Punk and lunar Punk maybe we go a little bit uh on History actually thanks to the n guys yesterday they did a sick presentation about uh the punk movement thank you for that shout out to them um so yeah let's let's start very quickly here so the punk movement in the late in the late 60s and the mid 70s actually started as a music movement um who knew here that actually the punk movement was a music movement okay perfect there's a lot of people that do know that which is really good um what happened there is that there there were people that were a little bit depressed because or not depressed just not happy with the state of the rock scene The Rock scene became a very commercialized thing so the punks they were against this commercialization they were against all these mainstream and these anti-establishment they were like basically anti-establishment so they came up together and they started to create their own environments they started to create their own culture they started to create their own way of dressing up they started to create their own ideals and so on and uh the main ethos of the punk movement was do it your own ethic um valuing the self-expression the personal responsibility and the direct action um then uh after that we had in the early um 80s we had the Cyber Punk movement and the cyberp punk movement was it started first like a Sci-Fi type of thing so basic basically um someone um I don't remember exactly the name wrote a novel about cyber Punk and also cyber Punk was start I started to be mentioned more and more in literature in the early um 80s these um these sci-fi stories that were being created U Were basically anti-authoritarianism and um kind of like showing like a resistance against the state or against like any form of um coercion uh and yeah um another another that is another thing that is important to mention about the Cyber Punk movement was that this um this let's say um movement was created thanks to uh a lot of literature a lot of um movies like Blade Runner and more and more more um more let's say films and different let's say forms of media that was basically showing to the world that we're going to be living in a world where uh um where there's going to be a lot of Oppression and there's going to be a lot of um control by the different um the different organizations um not necessarily the state but actually the corporations um then in the late 80s um there was also again a new Sci-Fi um term that came up which was a steampunk and the steampunk was kind of weird because it came after the Cyber Punk and the steampunk um it came after the Cyber Punk uh again the Cyber Punk was like this idea this futuristic uh dystopian um um dystopian scenario where you know corporations were going to attack uh the individuals and basically were going to be surveilled and so on in the steampunk they were imagining themselves even though they happened in the 80s they were imagining themselves that they were in the Victorian era era and that they were imagining in the future how uh how let's say the steampunk type of let's say culture will look like um the steampunk uh for those that uh that are not aware um they usually use a lot of Gears a lot of mechanical things if you Google quickly steampunk you you probably see that a lot of people um have been like going to festivals with these type of uh with this type of um um let's say how would I call it aesthetic then um the cipher Punk the cipher Punk came the in the early 80s and basically was um was with the idea of uh creating more encryption and creating say more tools that we allow people to um communicate directly to each other end to endend um and yeah basically um the main ethos is privacy Freedom uh through encryption and digital autonomy then came up the solar Punk movement and the solar Punk movement was in the mid uh 2010s and the idea of the solar Punk movement was basically to have kind of like a more optimistic view of the future and how we can use technology for development of humanity and then uh later on in 2020s uh the lunar Punk movement came out which was uh a movement which is a movement that was basically uh around a lot of mysticism uh when it comes to um privacy and also um the balance between the light and the dark or the shadows and what they call it the Dark Forest and this movement emphasizes cryptography and privacy tools um this is the first video that actually explained um a lot about the uh rise of the lunar punk I'm not going to show you the video because I don't have time uh but afterwards you guys I'm going to share with you the slide so you guys can see but one of the things that they say in the video is that solar P hackers are creating transparent infrastructure for funding public goods and that was kind of like one of the things that they said that is not necessarily good also that the Luna Punk has been Force um to break away from the solar Point Legacy which is basically all of this technology with ethereum that is very transparent and very open for everyone and yeah basically I started tweeting to the people that were that created this video and say hey actually I find that I find that you guys are kind of like being a little bit populist and using like uh using a narrative against the solar punks um when in when in reality a lot of the solar punks we do care about privacy and actually um Rachel who is the person that is behind the lunar Punk movement she started replying to the tweets and saying well uh the article is merely is merely uh pointing out authoritarian tendency within the solar pong uh within the solar pong ecosystem and and yeah basically she was saying that proof of humanity and gitcoin they are not necessarily really align with her value um here there's also a video that talks lunar Punk versus solar solar Punk versus lunar Punk uh with Kevin aukee also we have it in the slides you guys can check it afterwards um and yeah basically what happened afterwards is that when we started having this conversation with rose we realized that a lot of the things that the lunar punks believe are very similar to the things that the solar punks believe I myself I was I was called calling myself a solar pump for a lot of years until uh until this new let's say uh Narrative of the lunar Punk came out when this new narrative came out I stopped calling myself a solar Punk because it was not really clear what a solar Punk was and so on and I'm saying all of this to you guys is because it's important to understand that we are creating the we are creating these movements we are creating them using language and using um using let's say uh narrative so that means that we need to be very aware and very conscious of like the language that we use when we're creating these different type of um different type of movements so as I said before we we realize that uh that a lot of the values that the solar that the lunar punks uh said that they have and and the values that I consider that I had as a solar Punk uh are actually very similar but if we extrapolate all of all of the all of the things that the solar Punk or lunar punks are saying one thing we have in common is that the solar Punk Cipher punks cyber punks or any of those punks movement the only thing that they care about was protecting their community and having a better world for their community and for their Humanity so again if we extrapolate all of the differences between all of these different all of these different movements the main common de denominator is that word care they care about their communities so the what is the highest form of care to me that's love and that's basically why I'm calling myself a love Punk and that's it for today if you guys want to learn more 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