soilpunk
Syllables: soil·punkUS/ˈsɔɪl.pʌŋk/
soilpunk noun: a literary, artistic, and social movement focusing on a utopian future achieved through the use of earth-conscious activities such as microbiome hacking, rewilding, soil remediation, and other DIY permaculture techniques, with a focus on collectivism and constructive optimism about the environment and climate change.
Noun
soilpunk (countable and uncountable, plural soilpunks)
- A literary, artistic, and social movement focusing on a utopian future achieved through the use of earth-conscious activities such as microbiome hacking, rewilding, soil remediation, and other DIY permaculture techniques, with a focus on collectivism and constructive optimism about the environment and climate change.
- We started Tractor Beam because we believe our fiction shapes our future. And because we believe our future is here, on Earth, with soil beneath our feet.2025 March, Claire Gustavson, Lana Z. Porter, Tractor Beam, number Spring 2025 (No. 1), archived from the original on 10 Nov 2025
- Soilpunk — from soil and punk (revolt) — is an artistic movement, not merely a literary one, that challenges the defeatism of twentieth-century dystopias with a positive, virtuous vision of humanity’s future relationship with Mother Earth. It belongs not only to literature but more broadly to a...2025 October 1, Voce Narrante, “Soilpunk Fiction. Radical Futures Beyond Capitalist Dystopia”, in Politics & Activism, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2026
Forms of soilpunk
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Origin of soilpunk
From soil + -punk, by analogy with cyberpunk, coined by DIY permaculture, ecology, architecture, and fiction magazine Tractor Beam in its debut Spring 2025 issue, "Generation".
Questions about soilpunk
- What does soilpunk mean?
- Soilpunk means a literary, artistic, and social movement focusing on a utopian future achieved through the use of earth-conscious activities such as microbiome hacking, rewilding, soil remediation, and other DIY permaculture techniques, with a focus on collectivism and constructive optimism about the environment and climate change.
- What part of speech is soilpunk?
- Soilpunk is a noun.
- How do you pronounce soilpunk?
- Soilpunk is pronounced /ˈsɔɪl.pʌŋk/ (US).
- What is the plural of soilpunk?
- The plural of soilpunk is soilpunks.
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