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* George Clinton, ''Mothership Connection'', 1975.
 
* George Clinton, ''Mothership Connection'', 1975.
 
* Lee "Scratch" Perry, The Black Ark, studio and label, 1973-78.
 
* Lee "Scratch" Perry, The Black Ark, studio and label, 1973-78.
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20190213201113/http://afrofuturism.net/discography/ Discography on Afrofuturism.net]
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==Film==
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20190130155753/http://afrofuturism.net/filmvideography-2/ Film/Videography on Afrofuturism.net]
  
 
==Fiction==
 
==Fiction==
 
* [http://jalada.org/2015/01/14/jalada-02-afrofutures/ ''Jalada'' 02: Afrofuture(s)], ed. Moses Kilolo, et al., Nairobi: Jalada Africa, 2015. A collection of short stories and poems centred on the genres of Afrofuturism and AfroSF.
 
* [http://jalada.org/2015/01/14/jalada-02-afrofutures/ ''Jalada'' 02: Afrofuture(s)], ed. Moses Kilolo, et al., Nairobi: Jalada Africa, 2015. A collection of short stories and poems centred on the genres of Afrofuturism and AfroSF.
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20190112152442/http://afrofuturism.net/literature/ List of literature on Afrofuturism.net]
  
 
==Documentary==
 
==Documentary==
 
* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylVuTqiGCyo The Last Angel of History]'', dir. John Akomfrah, 45 min. Written and researched by Edward George of Black Audio Film Collective. Explores relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and computer technology. Featuring Tate, Eshun, Goldie, Clinton, Derrick May and others. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Angel_of_History]
 
* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylVuTqiGCyo The Last Angel of History]'', dir. John Akomfrah, 45 min. Written and researched by Edward George of Black Audio Film Collective. Explores relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and computer technology. Featuring Tate, Eshun, Goldie, Clinton, Derrick May and others. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Angel_of_History]
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==Communities, collectives==
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* [https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/afrofuturism/info Afrofuturism listserv], est. Jan 1999, moderated by Alondra Nelson, et al.
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* [http://www.afrofuturistaffair.com/ The Afrofuturist Affair], Philadelphia AfroFuturists community.
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* [http://blackquantumfuturism.tumblr.com/ Black Quantum Futurism] collective.
  
 
==Resources==
 
==Resources==
* [http://afrofuturism.net/ Afrofuturism.net]
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* [http://afrofuturism.net/ Afrofuturism.net], ed. Kali Tal. [http://web.archive.org/web/20190218032039/http://afrofuturism.net/ Archived version].
 
* [http://www.hmkv.de/_en/programm/programmpunkte/2014/Veranstaltungen/2014_Afro-Tech.php Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-invention. Alternative Technological Energies and Intelligences in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria], research by Inke Arns and Anne Bergner, 2014.
 
* [http://www.hmkv.de/_en/programm/programmpunkte/2014/Veranstaltungen/2014_Afro-Tech.php Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-invention. Alternative Technological Energies and Intelligences in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria], research by Inke Arns and Anne Bergner, 2014.
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20181021235236/http://afrofuturism.net/webography/ Webography on Afrofuturism.net]
  
==Publications==
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==Criticism, reflection, historisation, statements==
 
[[Image:Eshun_Kodwo_More_Brilliant_Than_the_Sun_Adventures_in_Sonic_Fiction.jpg|thumb|200px|Kodwo Eshun, ''More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures In Sonic Fiction'', 1998, [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=805 Log], [[Media:Eshun_Kodwo_More_Brilliant_Than_the_Sun_Adventures_in_Sonic_Fiction.pdf|PDF]].]]  
 
[[Image:Eshun_Kodwo_More_Brilliant_Than_the_Sun_Adventures_in_Sonic_Fiction.jpg|thumb|200px|Kodwo Eshun, ''More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures In Sonic Fiction'', 1998, [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=805 Log], [[Media:Eshun_Kodwo_More_Brilliant_Than_the_Sun_Adventures_in_Sonic_Fiction.pdf|PDF]].]]  
 
[[Image:Nelson_Alondra_ed_Afrofuturism_Social_Text.jpg|thumb|200px|''Social Text'' 71: "Afrofuturism", ed. Alondra Nelson, 2002, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11786 Log], [[Media:Nelson_Alondra_ed_Afrofuturism_Social_Text.pdf|PDF]].]]
 
[[Image:Nelson_Alondra_ed_Afrofuturism_Social_Text.jpg|thumb|200px|''Social Text'' 71: "Afrofuturism", ed. Alondra Nelson, 2002, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11786 Log], [[Media:Nelson_Alondra_ed_Afrofuturism_Social_Text.pdf|PDF]].]]
* {{a|Tate1985}} Greg Tate, "Yo! Hermeneutics!: Henry Louis Gates, Houston Baker, David Toop", ''The Wire'', London, 1985; [[Media:Tate_Greg_1992_Yo_Hermeneutics_Henry_Louis_Gates_Houston_Baker_David_Toop.pdf|repr. in]] Tate, ''Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America'', New York, 1992, pp 145-158.  
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*{{a|Tate1985}}Greg Tate, "Yo! Hermeneutics!: Henry Louis Gates, Houston Baker, David Toop", ''The Wire'', London, 1985; [[Media:Tate_Greg_1992_Yo_Hermeneutics_Henry_Louis_Gates_Houston_Baker_David_Toop.pdf|repr. in]] Tate, ''Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America'', New York, 1992, pp 145-158.  
 
** [https://monoskop.org/images/f/fa/Diederichsen_Diedrich_ed_Yo_Hermeneutics_Schwarze_Kulturkritik_Pop_Medien_Feminismus.pdf#page=84 "Yo! Hermeneutics! Henry Louis Gates, Houston A. Baker & David Toop"], in ''Yo! Hermeneutics!'', ed. Diedrich Diederichsen, Berlin: ID-Verlag, 1993, pp 165-176. {{de}}
 
** [https://monoskop.org/images/f/fa/Diederichsen_Diedrich_ed_Yo_Hermeneutics_Schwarze_Kulturkritik_Pop_Medien_Feminismus.pdf#page=84 "Yo! Hermeneutics! Henry Louis Gates, Houston A. Baker & David Toop"], in ''Yo! Hermeneutics!'', ed. Diedrich Diederichsen, Berlin: ID-Verlag, 1993, pp 165-176. {{de}}
* Greg Sinker, [http://web.archive.org/web/20060209100352/http://www.thewire.co.uk/archive/essays/black_science_fiction.html "Loving the Alien: In Advance Of The Landing"], ''The Wire'' 96 (Feb 1992).
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* Greg Sinker, [http://web.archive.org/web/20060209100352/http://www.thewire.co.uk/archive/essays/black_science_fiction.html "Loving the Alien: In Advance Of The Landing"], ''The Wire'' 96, London, Feb 1992.
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* Diedrich Diederichsen (ed.), ''[[Media:Diederichsen_Diedrich_ed_Yo_Hermeneutics_Schwarze_Kulturkritik_Pop_Medien_Feminismus.pdf|Yo! Hermeneutics! Schwarze Kulturkritik Pop/Medien/Feminismus]]'', Berlin: ID, 1993. [http://www.nadir.org/nadir/archiv/Kultur/Kritik/yo_hermeneutics/yo1.html TOC]. {{de}}
 
* Diedrich Diederichsen (ed.), ''[[Media:Diederichsen_Diedrich_ed_Yo_Hermeneutics_Schwarze_Kulturkritik_Pop_Medien_Feminismus.pdf|Yo! Hermeneutics! Schwarze Kulturkritik Pop/Medien/Feminismus]]'', Berlin: ID, 1993. [http://www.nadir.org/nadir/archiv/Kultur/Kritik/yo_hermeneutics/yo1.html TOC]. {{de}}
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* Paul Gilroy, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=78514B7D04294CE361269CC920C609F6 The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness]'', London: Verso, 1993; Harvard University Press, 1993. [http://web.archive.org/web/20091214185207/http://czem.sonance.net/afrofuturism/gilroy.htm]
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* Mark Dery, "Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose", in ''Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture'', ed. Dery, Duke University Press, 1994, pp 179-222. [https://www.dukeupress.edu/flame-wars]
 
* Mark Dery, "Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose", in ''Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture'', ed. Dery, Duke University Press, 1994, pp 179-222. [https://www.dukeupress.edu/flame-wars]
 
** "Black to the Future: Afro-Futurismus", in ''Loving the Alien'', ed. Diedrich Diederichsen, Berlin: ID, 1998. {{de}}
 
** "Black to the Future: Afro-Futurismus", in ''Loving the Alien'', ed. Diedrich Diederichsen, Berlin: ID, 1998. {{de}}
* Ian Penman, [http://web.archive.org/web/20050319082358/http://www.thewire.co.uk/archive/essays/tricky.html "Black Secret Tricknology"], ''The Wire'' 133 (Mar 1995). Review of Tricky's debut album ''Maxinquaye''.
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* Paul Gilroy, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=78514B7D04294CE361269CC920C609F6 The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness]'', London: Verso, 1993; Harvard University Press, 1993. [http://web.archive.org/web/20091214185207/http://czem.sonance.net/afrofuturism/gilroy.htm]
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* Ian Penman, [http://web.archive.org/web/20050319082358/http://www.thewire.co.uk/archive/essays/tricky.html "Black Secret Tricknology"], ''The Wire'' 133, London, Mar 1995. Review of Tricky's debut album ''Maxinquaye''.
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* Kali Tal, [https://kalital.com/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-being-african-american-critical-theory-and-cybercultur/ "The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: African American Critical Theory and Cyberculture"], 1996; shortened version as [http://web.archive.org/web/20150201064831/http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.10/screen.html "Behind the Screen: African-American Theory and Computer-Mediated Communication"], ''Wired'' 4:10, Oct 1996.
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* Kodwo Eshun, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=805 More Brilliant Than The Sun. Adventures in Sonic Fiction]'', Quartet Books, 1998, 239 pp. [http://web.archive.org/web/20091213153715/http://czem.sonance.net/afrofuturism/eshun.html]
 
* Kodwo Eshun, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=805 More Brilliant Than The Sun. Adventures in Sonic Fiction]'', Quartet Books, 1998, 239 pp. [http://web.archive.org/web/20091213153715/http://czem.sonance.net/afrofuturism/eshun.html]
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* Diedrich Diederichsen (ed.), ''Loving the Alien. Science Fiction, Diaspora, Multikultur'', Berlin: ID, 1998, 224 pp. [https://www.idverlag.com/buchseite.php?buchID=81] {{de}}
 
* Diedrich Diederichsen (ed.), ''Loving the Alien. Science Fiction, Diaspora, Multikultur'', Berlin: ID, 1998, 224 pp. [https://www.idverlag.com/buchseite.php?buchID=81] {{de}}
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* Mark Dery, [http://web.archive.org/web/19991023003219/http://www.levity.com/markdery/black.html "Black to the Future: Afro-Futurism 1.0"], in Dery, ''The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink'', 1999. [http://www.detritus.net/contact/rumori/200211/0319.html] [http://web.archive.org/web/20091214185202/http://czem.sonance.net/afrofuturism/dery.html]
 
* Mark Dery, [http://web.archive.org/web/19991023003219/http://www.levity.com/markdery/black.html "Black to the Future: Afro-Futurism 1.0"], in Dery, ''The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink'', 1999. [http://www.detritus.net/contact/rumori/200211/0319.html] [http://web.archive.org/web/20091214185202/http://czem.sonance.net/afrofuturism/dery.html]
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* Michelle-Lee White, Keith Piper, Alondra Nelson, Arnold J. Kemp, Erika Dalya Muhammad, [[Media:White_Piper_Nelson_Kemp_Muhammad_2001_Aftrotech_and_Outer_Spaces.pdf|"Aftrotech and Outer Spaces"]], ''Art Journal'' 60:3, Autumn 2001, pp 90-104.
 
* Michelle-Lee White, Keith Piper, Alondra Nelson, Arnold J. Kemp, Erika Dalya Muhammad, [[Media:White_Piper_Nelson_Kemp_Muhammad_2001_Aftrotech_and_Outer_Spaces.pdf|"Aftrotech and Outer Spaces"]], ''Art Journal'' 60:3, Autumn 2001, pp 90-104.
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* Krystian Woznicki, [http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/11/11155/1.html "Afro-Futurismus im Strukturwandel. Zur afro-amerikanischen Sci-Fi-Ikonografie unter den Bedingungen der New Econonmy"], ''Telepolis'', 20 Nov 2001. {{de}}
 
* Krystian Woznicki, [http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/11/11155/1.html "Afro-Futurismus im Strukturwandel. Zur afro-amerikanischen Sci-Fi-Ikonografie unter den Bedingungen der New Econonmy"], ''Telepolis'', 20 Nov 2001. {{de}}
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11786 ''Social Text'' 71: "Afrofuturism"], ed. Alondra Nelson, Summer 2002, 146 pp.
 
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11786 ''Social Text'' 71: "Afrofuturism"], ed. Alondra Nelson, Summer 2002, 146 pp.
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* Christian Zemsauer, [http://web.archive.org/web/20091214211308/http://czem.sonance.net/afrofuturism/ "The Slave, the Robot and the Alien"], Mar 2002. An introduction to Afrofuturism.
 
* Christian Zemsauer, [http://web.archive.org/web/20091214211308/http://czem.sonance.net/afrofuturism/ "The Slave, the Robot and the Alien"], Mar 2002. An introduction to Afrofuturism.
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* Sandra Grayson, ''Visions of the Third Millennium'', 2002.
 
* Sandra Grayson, ''Visions of the Third Millennium'', 2002.
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* Kodwo Eshun, [[Media:Eshun Kodwo 2003 Further Considerations on Afrofuturism.pdf|"Further Considerations on Afrofuturism"]], ''The New Centennial Review'' 3:2, Summer 2003, pp 287-302.
 
* Kodwo Eshun, [[Media:Eshun Kodwo 2003 Further Considerations on Afrofuturism.pdf|"Further Considerations on Afrofuturism"]], ''The New Centennial Review'' 3:2, Summer 2003, pp 287-302.
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21757 Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68]'', ed. Anthony Elms, Chicago: WhiteWalls, 2007, 128 pp.  
 
* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21757 Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68]'', ed. Anthony Elms, Chicago: WhiteWalls, 2007, 128 pp.  
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* ''Science Fiction Studies'' 34:2 (102): "Afrofuturism", Jul 2007. [http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/covers/cov102.htm]
 
* ''Science Fiction Studies'' 34:2 (102): "Afrofuturism", Jul 2007. [http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/covers/cov102.htm]
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* Adilifu Nama, ''Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film'', 2008.
 
* Adilifu Nama, ''Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film'', 2008.
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* D. Scot Miller, [http://dscotmiller.blogspot.com/2009/05/afrosurreal.html "AfroSurreal Generation: Afrosurreal Manifesto"], 20 May 2009.
 
* D. Scot Miller, [http://dscotmiller.blogspot.com/2009/05/afrosurreal.html "AfroSurreal Generation: Afrosurreal Manifesto"], 20 May 2009.
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* Adilifu Nama, [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/14725840902808736 "Brave Black Worlds: Black Superheroes as Science Fiction Ciphers"], ''African Identities'' 7(2): "The Black Imagination and Science Fiction", 2009, pp 133-144.
 
* Adilifu Nama, [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/14725840902808736 "Brave Black Worlds: Black Superheroes as Science Fiction Ciphers"], ''African Identities'' 7(2): "The Black Imagination and Science Fiction", 2009, pp 133-144.
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* Sandra Jackson, ''The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative'', 2011.
 
* Sandra Jackson, ''The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative'', 2011.
 
* ''The Shadows Took Shape'', eds. Naima J. Keith and Zoe Whitley, New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2013, 160 pp. Review: [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/02533952.2014.998051 Malatjie] (JAS).
 
* ''The Shadows Took Shape'', eds. Naima J. Keith and Zoe Whitley, New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2013, 160 pp. Review: [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/02533952.2014.998051 Malatjie] (JAS).
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* Black Quantum Futurism, ''Space-Time Collapse Vol II: Community Futurisms'', Philadelphia, PA: AfroFuturist Affair/House of Future Sciences Books, Jan 2020, 204 pp. [https://www.blackquantumfuturism.com/product-page/space-time-collapse-ii-community-futurisms]
 
* Black Quantum Futurism, ''Space-Time Collapse Vol II: Community Futurisms'', Philadelphia, PA: AfroFuturist Affair/House of Future Sciences Books, Jan 2020, 204 pp. [https://www.blackquantumfuturism.com/product-page/space-time-collapse-ii-community-futurisms]
 
* Charles Tonderai Mudede, [https://www.e-flux.com/journal/106/312927/ "Which Angel of Death Appears in Afrofuturist Visions of Hi-Tech Black Societies?"], ''e-flux'' 106, Feb 2020.
 
* Charles Tonderai Mudede, [https://www.e-flux.com/journal/106/312927/ "Which Angel of Death Appears in Afrofuturist Visions of Hi-Tech Black Societies?"], ''e-flux'' 106, Feb 2020.
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; Bibliographies
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20181021221635/http://afrofuturism.net/criticism/ A list of critical articles about or related to afrofuturism on Afrofuturism.net]
  
 
==Events==
 
==Events==
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==Links==
 
==Links==
* [http://www.afrofuturistaffair.com/ The Afrofuturist Affair], Philadelphia AfroFuturists community.
 
 
* [https://www.facebook.com/communityfutureslab/ Community Futures Lab], Philadelphia, opened Jun 2016 [https://www.facebook.com/events/279944169019626/]. [http://hyperallergic.com/307013/an-afrofuturist-community-center-targets-gentrification/]
 
* [https://www.facebook.com/communityfutureslab/ Community Futures Lab], Philadelphia, opened Jun 2016 [https://www.facebook.com/events/279944169019626/]. [http://hyperallergic.com/307013/an-afrofuturist-community-center-targets-gentrification/]
* [http://blackquantumfuturism.tumblr.com/ Black Quantum Futurism] collective.
 
  
  
 
{{Literature}}
 
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Revision as of 07:45, 29 August 2020

In his book More Brilliant Than The Sun, Kodwo Eshun gives a concise summary of history of the term:

AfroFuturism comes from Mark Dery's '93 book [Flame Wars], but the trajectory starts with Mark Sinker. In 1992, Sinker starts writing on Black Science Fiction; that's because he's just been to the States and Greg Tate's been writing a lot about the interface between science fiction and Black Music. Tate wrote this review called "Yo Hermeneutics" which was a review of David Toop's Rap Attack plus a Houston Baker book, and it was one of the first pieces to lay out this science fiction of black technological music right there. And so anyway Mark went over, spoke to Greg, came back, started writing on Black Science Fiction. He wrote a big piece in The Wire, a really early piece on Black Science Fiction in which he posed this question, asks "What does it mean to be human?" In other words, Mark made the correlation between Blade Runner and slavery, between the idea of alien abduction and the real events of slavery. (cont.)

Music

Film

Fiction

Documentary

  • The Last Angel of History, dir. John Akomfrah, 45 min. Written and researched by Edward George of Black Audio Film Collective. Explores relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and computer technology. Featuring Tate, Eshun, Goldie, Clinton, Derrick May and others. [1]

Communities, collectives

Resources

Criticism, reflection, historisation, statements

Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures In Sonic Fiction, 1998, Log, PDF.
Social Text 71: "Afrofuturism", ed. Alondra Nelson, 2002, Log, PDF.
  • Mark Dery, "Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose", in Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture, ed. Dery, Duke University Press, 1994, pp 179-222. [3]
    • "Black to the Future: Afro-Futurismus", in Loving the Alien, ed. Diedrich Diederichsen, Berlin: ID, 1998. (German)
  • Diedrich Diederichsen (ed.), Loving the Alien. Science Fiction, Diaspora, Multikultur, Berlin: ID, 1998, 224 pp. [5] (German)
  • Michelle-Lee White, Keith Piper, Alondra Nelson, Arnold J. Kemp, Erika Dalya Muhammad, "Aftrotech and Outer Spaces", Art Journal 60:3, Autumn 2001, pp 90-104.
  • Sandra Grayson, Visions of the Third Millennium, 2002.
  • Science Fiction Studies 34:2 (102): "Afrofuturism", Jul 2007. [8]
  • Adilifu Nama, Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film, 2008.
Bibliographies

Events

Links


Literature
groups, movements, cultures

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