Post B2NadOBXJXIBtrkDCa by raganwald@social.bau-ha.us
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(DIR) Post #B2NaT7NYwZPyshTK0e by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-17T15:04:11Z
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I really wish that people would stop trying to turn #solarpunk into another escapist luxury style like #artnouveau Art Nouveau loves nature even as it destroys it. Art Nouveau sometimes feels like a mockery of nature to me--We love nature so much we have cut down all of the mahogany trees and carved them into an extraordinary excessively pretty banister shaped like no real plant you have ever seen. A staircase frozen in time forever in a dead space filled with insufferable people.
(DIR) Post #B2NadOBXJXIBtrkDCa by raganwald@social.bau-ha.us
2026-01-17T15:05:25Z
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@futurebird Reminds me of: "A suburb is a place where a developer cuts down all the trees, and then names the streets after them."
(DIR) Post #B2Nb2JCKzcwffl0AS0 by ClimateJenny@biodiversity.social
2026-01-17T15:10:27Z
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@futurebird Hmm. What’s your take on William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement? Is he culpable?
(DIR) Post #B2NbFTfdMrETuuz5P6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-17T15:12:55Z
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@ClimateJenny I think there is a similar dynamic with arts and crafts but some of them did a better job resisting it. Their focus on labor is interesting. Who made this? How? Good questions.
(DIR) Post #B2NhLuLLi9JK6Uwglc by tikaro@jawns.club
2026-01-17T16:21:15Z
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@futurebird this is the source of my own grappling with the “grim up north” aesthetic of rich-people workwear. “Look how simple, sincere, and ascetic I am!” screams the zillion-dollar gray-green bespoke tailored canvas jacket. I say ‘grappling’ because I’m very much a PART of this. Also reading Bourdieu for a +5 bonus to “oh god, I’m the problem” :)