https://spectra.video/videos/watch/a3eb814e-718d-4d30-a258-4c25319687a3 A video essay about art, capitalism, revolution, and yogurt. Hi I'm Saoirse, and this is Free as Folk! 😃 SOLARPUNK CHOBANI is my first video essay. This is a big ole' project I've been working on for almost 3 years -- from research, to writing and editing, trying out filming locations and costumes, how to shoot a shot-reverse-shot with myself as both actors and the director (not recommended!), and learning a whole slew of editing skills -- and I'm very excited to finally share it with cool people like you! There's endlessly more to talk about on this topic, and I'm psyched to hear y'all's thoughts! I can't wait to hear semioticians tell me how I've misinterpreted Kristeva XD. Here's the the Minnesota podcast I mention in the video: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/it-could-happen-here-319435576 Solarpunk stories: https://storyseedlibrary.org/ Selected source list Pro-tip: Many old books and academic articles are accessible on the Internet Archive, and many recent ones are available from your public library! Intro Dear Alice. @THELINEanimation , 2021., Dear Alice Decommodified Edition. @waffletotheleft3443 2021., What is Solarpunk? @Andrewism , 2020., Intertextuality Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. Julia Kristeva, 1941., The Comparatist 35(1):148-151. Elaine Martin, 2011., I'm What the Culture Feeling. @FDSignifire , 2025., Meet the Artists The Future is Bright, Jessica Woulfe, Atomhawk Solarpunk Art Competition, 2019., Studio Ghibli What Makes Studio Ghibli Music SO GOOD??!! @NahreSol 2022., Techno-optimism? Techno-optimist Manifesto. Marc Andreessen, 2023., Seeing Like a State. James C Scott, 1998., Braiding Sweetgrass. Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013., Discourse on Colonialism. Aimé Césaire, 1950., How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Walter Rodney, 1972., Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor. Kim Kelly, 2023., Economic Critique of Automation PSA Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. John Maynard Keynes, 1930., The Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith, 1776., Principles of Political Economy bk. 4, ch. 6. John Stewart Mill, 1848., Manifesto of the Communist Party. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848. Techno-optimism part 2, AI doesn't exist but it will ruin everything anyway, @acollierastro , 2023., The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. INCITE!, 2007., The Bell Curve @Shaun_vids , 2019., Tehanu. Ursula K. Le Guin, 1990., The Dawn of Everything: New History of Humanity. David Graeber, David Wengrow, 2021., About Chobani Chobani Founder Hamdi Ulukaya on the Journey from Abandoned Factory to Yogurt Powerhouse. Harvard Business Review, 2022., Manufacturing Consent. Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, 1988., Thinking Fast and Slow. Daniel Kahneman, 2011., Chobani CEO Says Food System Needs Immigration to Function. Wall Street Journal, 2025., “Pro-Refugee” Corporations Are Bankrolling Anti-Immigrant Republicans, Ricardo Gomez, Jacobin 2022., General Strike 2028: https://may1.uaw.org/, https://www.defendrojava.org/., Did the ad work? The Rhetoric of Economics* Deirdre N. McCloskey, 1998., Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse. Stuart Hall, 1973., Revolutionary Potential? Capitalist Realism : Is There No Alternative? Mark Fisher, 2009., The Shock of Victory. David Graeber, 2007., What is Solarpunk? Alessandro Spordoni, Blue Labyrinths 2024., Commercializing Solarpunk Monk and Robot Duology. Becky Chambers, 2021-2022., Music credits: Gymnopédie No. 1, Erik Satie., Nocturne in B major, Op. 9 no. 3.mp3, Frédéric Chopin., Kwartet Japoński II, Maciej Żołnowski, South Rampart Street Parade, Bob Crosby., Don't Go 'Way Nobody, George Lewis and his New Orleans Stompers., Fantaisie-Impromptu No. 4, Op. 66, Frédéric Chopin., Temptation Sensation, Heinz Kiessling., Srebrne saksofony, Jerzy Zając., Clubbed to Death remix, Rob Dougan., Acknowledgements & Inspirations SOLARPUNK CHOBANI would almost definitely not have seen the light of day without 7 Deadly Art Sins by @cjthex . I had to stop depriving the Universe of its U. Several more direct video essayist inspirations: Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos. @cjthex, The Left. @ContraPoints, Steve Bannon. @PhilosophyTube, Destiny and the Liberal Mind Prison. @ThoughtSlime, The World is Not Ending. @SophiefromMars, Jennifer's Body and the Horror of Bad Marketing. @Yharazayd, Lastly I must thank my dear friend Lawrence Jenkins, who has been such a deep source of encouragement and a wonderful intellectual partner with whom I sharpened many of the ideas in the video essay. Without him, I probably would have dropped this project somewhere between shooting and the final edit. Lawrence is currently incarcerated, and you can support his freedom campaign here: https://freelawrencemovement.com/projects/. 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