A farmpunk* could be described as a neo-agrarian who approaches [agri]culture, community development and/or design with a hacker ethos. "Cyber-agrarian" could supplant neo-agrarian, indicating a back-to-the-land perspective that stands apart from past movements because it is heavily informed by conceptual integration in a post-industrial information society. The art and science of modern ecological design - whether it be earthworks, shelter building, farm design, or urban reprogramming - is best achieved through the combined arts of cybermancy and geomancy. These hermeneutic discliplines are not categorical or reductionist, but open-ended. Natural ecologies must be seen as the original cybernetic systems.
I blame my penchant for word synthesis on dead languages, Bucky Fuller, and all the elves in the fifth dimension.
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It might take me a while to figure out what your words mean in layman's terms but it is the best spent time, in my opinion. lol
thank gods for hypertext. :P
Don't be scared off by the big words. I totally agree that many of us are coming to gardening/farming from a new perspective.
No longer is it all hippie/spiritual. The natural systems are something to understand, respect and hack.
thankfully the thoughts of the true punk movement are seeping into the soil in solution, nurturing the soil, growing into silica based plant life, feeding us, returning to the soil and then allowing our little noggins to process and hack all this with our little silicon based wafers with buttons on them so we can yell to others about the great silica we just grew. whew!!!! finally.
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