01 // Everything else
Press and podcast appearances, work in print, records I played on, design jobs, and the events I’ve helped make happen.
Everything on this page is something I did that doesn’t have a home anywhere else on the site. Some of it is from this year. Some of it is from 2003 and only survives because of the Wayback Machine.
If you want the short version of what I actually do, the about page is the place to start. If you’re here for the podcasts, they live on shows. Talks and conference appearances have a page of their own.
On this page
- Press & podcasts — thirty-odd interviews and conversations
- In print — fiction and non-fiction on paper
- Music — one current band, four former ones
- Design & layout — zines, journals, icon sets, record sleeves
- Events & collectives — things organised with other people
02 // Press & podcasts
Podcasts & radio
- Interactive Stories That Never Die? Meet the O’ruggin Trail
FOCGERSSS Pod - Episode 040: The Return of Jay Springett
Wolf Pod - Cultural Fracking and World Running
Neomania Podcast - Writer Jay Springett on “Worlds” as Medium
New Models Podcast (subscribers) - Blue Ant Trilogy
Wolf Pod Bookclub - How solarpunk envisions a world we will want to live in
Ecogradia - Pattern Recognition
Wolf Pod - Izumi Suzuki’s Hit Parade of Tears
Ghost in the Tome - Only Forward
Ghost in the Tome - Terminal Boredom: Proto-Cyberpunk, Mindless Violence, and Predicting the Future
Ghost in the Tome / Agitator - Worldrunning and the Vertical of One
Agitator Podcast - Solarpunk, Sustainability Beliefs & Worldbuilding
Talks With Jesse Nickell - The Hopeychattybits
Unsee The Future - Near Future Laboratory Podcast N°22
Near Future Laboratory - This is All Happening Right Now: Solarpunk, cultural fracking and the real Jurassic Park
Interdependence.fm - Crypto, DAOs, and Virtual Influencers
Distributed Humanity - 21st Century — radio interview [Spanish]
Siglo 21, RTVE - Notes Toward a Manifesto: Solarpunk, Hopepunk & the Magic of Envisioning a Better Future
Occulture, with Gordon White
Press & interviews
- Tired of dystopian sci-fi? You might like Solarpunk
Mother Jones - What’s next for social media?
BBC News - Solarpunk started out as a speculative fiction genre. Now it informs sustainable architecture and design
ABC News - Unter Einer Sonne [German]
mPaper Magazine #6 - Cultural fracking: Unpacking mass media’s obsession with past IP
Canada Media Fund 2023 Trends Report - Solarpunk Is Not About Pretty Aesthetics. It’s About the End of Capitalism
Vice / Motherboard - Why “Solarpunk” Gives Me Hope for a More Sustainable Future
Yes! Magazine - Solarpunk Is a Tumblr Vibe. It’s Also a Practical Movement
Built In - A Trips Festival for the Digital Age
The Long Now Foundation - Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime?
e-flux Architecture - La science fiction pourra-t-elle sauver la planète ? [French]
Ulyces Magazine - Solarpunk — The Sunny Therapy Against The Endtimes [German]
arte.tv - Solar Punk, a framework for hopeful futures
Clot Magazine
03 // In print
Fiction
In The Storm, A Fire — a solarpunk short story written with Andrew Dana Hudson.
- And Lately, The Sun — Calyx Press (UK / US)
- Lo Stato Solare — Future Fiction (IT)
Non-fiction
- Hybrid Realities
The Model Is the Message, Incredible Machines 2022 | &&& (EN) - Solarpunk: A Container for More Fertile Futures
Solarpunk Magazine #1 | Android Press (EN) - The Vibe Dislocates the Present to Re-Future the Future
Regeneracija [ir jos įtampos] | Architektūros Fondas (LT) — free PDF - The Techno-Pastoral
Lost Zone: Hiking the Dawn of Metaverse | Viaindustriae (EN) - Introduction
Solarpunk: Dalla Disperazione Alla Strategia | Future Fiction (IT) - Insufficient Tolkien
Intermission Anthology | Unsound Festival (EN) - Multispecies Sustainability
Global Sustainability | Cambridge University Press (EN) - Solarpunk: A Reference Guide
Online link repository, collated to 2018 (EN)
04 // Music
Forest Bed
The band I currently play in. Our Placeholder EP is on Bandcamp, and we still put on the occasional show.
Bands gone by
- Slingshot Around the Moon — Quod Sum Eris 7″ | 2000–03
- Point Counter Point — S/T EP | 2003
- $oul Cru$h£r — various live noise sets | 2007–09
- Mean Red — S/T | 2009–10
05 // Design & layout
Zines, journals, icon sets, and record sleeves.
Selected credits
- Start Select Reset Zine — design and layout, fifteen issues and counting
- Floating Worlds Journal — design and layout, 56 pages in ten days
- Multispecies Imaginaries Political Compass — design and layout
- Resilience Maps — SCIM icon set, with Andrew Brown
- There’s No Place Like Home — design and layout
- This Is Not Revolution Rock, Compilation #1 — cover photograph
06 // Events & collectives
Things organised with other people. Twenty-odd years of finding the others.
Open Croissant
A fringe event on Autonomous Worlds, run alongside ETHGlobal London by a London group chat with unusual escape velocity.
I also produced Floating Worlds, the 56-page journal we handed out on the day.
The Thought Menu
A DIY nomadic talk series I co-founded in the summer of 2012. Fifteen minutes each, five of them for questions, a bell to keep everyone honest.
Informal by design, and built to break down the barrier between the speaker and the room.
Geekscene DIY Collective
A DIY collective from the very beginning of all this. The only surviving copy of the site is a Wayback Machine capture from November 2003.
Proof, if any were needed, that I have always been like this.