soilpunk

plural soilpunks

1. uncountableA 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 29, Claire Gustavson, Lana Z. Porter, Tractor Beam, number Spring 2025 (No. 1), archived from the original on 10 Nov 2025

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   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 constellation of collectivist, cooperative ideologies rooted in ecosocialism, fighting concretely for environmental sustainability through a constructive rather than fatalistic lens.

   2025 October 1, Voce Narrante, “Soilpunk Fiction. Radical Futures Beyond Capitalist Dystopia”, in Politics & Activism, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2026