Chapter 9. Punking Time in Key West

It turns out that steampunk is just one of many shiny spotlights trained on a changing world. James, Byrd, and the documentary crew travel to Key West Florida to look beyond steampunk and discover a wider variety of people who are all “punking” time to design a better future.

Speaking of time, we are in the midst of a very interesting one. Artists and writers all over the world are imagining and playing with the past and the future in the attempt to create a new present. This is not new. What is new is that fact that they are doing it consciously. They realize that playing with the past and imagined futures can actually have an effect on our real future. These people are all makers, hackers, and culturepunks ...

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