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Sep 17Liked by Nolan Monaghan

Are you aware of the Ghibli-inspired Chobani commercial ( https://youtu.be/z-Ng5ZvrDm4? )? I'm not sure how much to believe in that vision but it sortof paints a mixture of the aesthetic with (small-scale?) precision ag, geoengineering, and other modernities and urbanism in the distance.

Again, I find myself rather questioning about such visions out of concern they lead to techno-optimism over understanding ecological limits but an interesting thing to note as it spread in various social spaces such as the solarpunk movement. Another image I often see spread in ecofuturism is https://www.jessicaperlsteinart.com/workszoom/3667292/the-fifth-sacred-thing#/ , which still feels a bit contrived to me but perhaps I've seen the artwork reused in event announcements and newsletters so many times.

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