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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.
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* [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/]
  
 
==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.
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20180501031459/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]
  
==Writings==
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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://libgen.rs/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''.
* 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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* 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]'', London: Quartet Books, 1998, 17+222 pp; 2nd ed., London: Verso, 2018, 240 pp. [http://web.archive.org/web/20091213153715/http://czem.sonance.net/afrofuturism/eshun.html]
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** ''Heller als die Sonne: Abenteuer in der Sonic Fiction'', trans. Dietmar Dath, Berlin: ID-Archiv, 1999, 238 pp. {{de}}
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** ''Más brillante que el sol: incursiones en la ficción sónica'', trans. Tadeo Lima, Buenos Aires: Caja Negra, 2018, 328 pp. {{es}}
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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.
* Kodwo Eshun, [http://growingrootsnyc.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/eshun-further-considerations-on-afrofuturism2.pdf "Further Considerations on Afrofuturism"], ''The New Centennial Review'' 3:2 (Summer 2003), pp 287-302.
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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.
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** "Outras considerações sobre o afrofuturismo", in ''Histórias afro-atlânticas, vol. 2: antologia'', eds. Adriano Pedrosa, Amanda Carneiro, André Mesquita, São Paulo: Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), and Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 2018. [https://masp.org.br/livros/historias-afro-atlanticas-vol-2-antologia] {{br-pt}}
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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.
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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.se/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://www.tandfonline.com.sci-hub.bz/doi/abs/10.1080/02533952.2014.998051 Malatjie] (JAS 2014).
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* ''The Shadows Took Shape'', eds. Naima J. Keith and Zoe Whitley, New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2013, 160 pp. Review: [http://sci-hub.se/10.1080/02533952.2014.998051 Malatjie] (JAS).
 
* ''Paradoxa'' 25: "Africa SF", ed. Mark Bould, 2013. [http://paradoxa.com/volumes/25]
 
* ''Paradoxa'' 25: "Africa SF", ed. Mark Bould, 2013. [http://paradoxa.com/volumes/25]
 
* Jared C. Richardson, ''[https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/26810/RICHARDSON-THESIS-2012.pdf?sequence=1 Br(others) Only: Rashid Johnson, Class, and the Fraternal Orders of Afrofuturism]'', University of Texas at Austin, 2012, 75 pp. Master's thesis.
 
* Jared C. Richardson, ''[https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/26810/RICHARDSON-THESIS-2012.pdf?sequence=1 Br(others) Only: Rashid Johnson, Class, and the Fraternal Orders of Afrofuturism]'', University of Texas at Austin, 2012, 75 pp. Master's thesis.
* Ytasha Womack, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/b/34RwLzMxHQ92I_f7YwQFSAN993W1TLIFXo92JLKQYqTfs3Zy Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture]'', Chicago Review Press, 2013.
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* Ytasha Womack, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/0c096573-0b99-4102-b583-0493268db509 Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture]'', Chicago Review Press, 2013.
* Dariusz Brzostek, [http://academia.edu/14665124 "Afrofuturyzm – od analogowej wyobraźni do cyfrowego oporu"], ''Fragile'' 2:20 (2013), pp 72-76. {{pl}}
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* Dariusz Brzostek, [http://academia.edu/14665124 "Afrofuturyzm – od analogowej wyobraźni do cyfrowego oporu"], ''Fragile'' 2:20, 2013, pp 72-76. {{pl}}
* Adriano Elia, [http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/viewFile/13733/12764 "The Languages of Afrofuturism"], ''Lingue e Linguaggi'' 12 (2014), pp 83-96.
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* Martine Syms, [https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/dec/17/mundane-afrofuturist-manifesto/ "The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto"], ''Rhizome'', 17 Dec 2013; [http://thirdrailquarterly.org/wp-content/uploads/thirdrail_spring2014_final_msyms.pdf repr.], ''The Third Rail'' 3, 2014.
* Achille Mbembe, [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/cd648c89966a841e9bd85dff04af8854#0.01 "Afrofuturisme et devenir-nègre du monde"], ''Politique africaine'' 136 (4/2014). {{fr}}
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** "El Manifiesto Afrofuturista Mundano", in ''Ciberfeminismo. De VNS Matrix a Laboria Cuboniks'', eds. Remedios Zafra and Teresa López-Pellisa, Madrid: Holobionte, 2019. [https://edicionesholobionte.com/2398-2/] {{es}}
* Martine Syms, [http://thirdrailquarterly.org/wp-content/uploads/thirdrail_spring2014_final_msyms.pdf "The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto"], ''The Third Rail'' 3 (2014).  
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* Adriano Elia, [http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/viewFile/13733/12764 "The Languages of Afrofuturism"], ''Lingue e Linguaggi'' 12, 2014, pp 83-96.
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* Achille Mbembe, [https://www.cairn.info/revue-politique-africaine-2014-4-page-121.htm "Afrofuturisme et devenir-nègre du monde"], ''Politique africaine'' 136:4, 2014, pp 121-133, [[Media:Mbembe Achille 2014 Afrofuturisme et devenir-negre du monde.pdf|PDF]]. {{fr}}
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* Anthony Reed, [http://sci-hub.se/10.1080/10999949.2014.968951 "African Space Programs: Spaces and Times of the Black Fantastic"], ''Souls'' 16(3-4): "'Transition with a Real Slow Fade': The Life and Work of Richard Iton", 2014, pp 351-371.
 
* [http://www.advojka.cz/archiv/2015/22 ''A2'' 22: "Afrofuturismus"], Prague, 29 Oct 2015. Special issue of the magazine. {{cz}}
 
* [http://www.advojka.cz/archiv/2015/22 ''A2'' 22: "Afrofuturismus"], Prague, 29 Oct 2015. Special issue of the magazine. {{cz}}
 
* Nadine Botha, [http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/28271/1/race-is-the-space-afrofuturism-is-all-about-now "We need Afrofuturism more than ever"], ''Dazed'', 23 Nov 2015.
 
* Nadine Botha, [http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/28271/1/race-is-the-space-afrofuturism-is-all-about-now "We need Afrofuturism more than ever"], ''Dazed'', 23 Nov 2015.
* ''Black Quantum Futurism: Theory & Practice, Vol. 1'', ed. Rasheedah Phillips, House of Future Sciences Press, 2015, 84 pp.
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* ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/6025860d9ff37c574c2e81e8 Black Quantum Futurism: Theory & Practice, Vol. 1]'', ed. Rasheedah Phillips, Philadelphia, PA: AfroFuturist Affair/House of Future Sciences Books, Mar 2015, 84 pp. [https://www.blackquantumfuturism.com/product-page/bqf-theory-practice-vol-i] [https://blackquantumfuturism.tumblr.com/post/157879615550/superheroesincolor-black-quantum-futurism]
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* Black Quantum Futurism, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22465 Space-Time Collapse 1: From the Congo to the Carolinas]'', eds. Dominique Matti and Rasheedah Phillips, Philadelphia, PA: AfroFuturist Affair/House of Future Sciences Books, 2016, 108 pp. [https://www.blackquantumfuturism.com/product-page/space-time-collapse-vol-i]
 
* ''Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness'', eds. Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones, Lexington Books, 2016. [http://books.google.com/books?id=4Pf8CgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover]
 
* ''Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness'', eds. Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones, Lexington Books, 2016. [http://books.google.com/books?id=4Pf8CgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover]
 
* Namwali Serpell, [http://www.publicbooks.org/fiction/afrofuturism-everything-and-nothing "Afrofuturism: Everything and Nothing"], ''Public Books'', 1 Apr 2016.
 
* Namwali Serpell, [http://www.publicbooks.org/fiction/afrofuturism-everything-and-nothing "Afrofuturism: Everything and Nothing"], ''Public Books'', 1 Apr 2016.
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** Kinitra D. Brooks, Alexis McGee, Stephanie Schoellman, "Speculative Sankofarration: Haunting Black Women in Contemporary Horror Fiction".
 
** Kinitra D. Brooks, Alexis McGee, Stephanie Schoellman, "Speculative Sankofarration: Haunting Black Women in Contemporary Horror Fiction".
 
** John Jennings, "Scratching at the Dark: A Visual Essay on EthnoGothic".
 
** John Jennings, "Scratching at the Dark: A Visual Essay on EthnoGothic".
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* Rasheedah Phillips, [https://organizeyourown.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/organize-your-own-temporality-by-rasheedah-phillips/ "Organize Your Own Temporality: Notes on Self-Determined Temporalities and Radical Futurities in Liberation Movements"], in ''Organize Your Own'', Soberscove, 2016.
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* Paul Youngquist, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/57dee3d1-d7c0-496a-add4-71daddc4aa05 A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism]'', Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, 346 pp.
 
* Ruth La Ferladec, [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/fashion/afrofuturism-the-next-generation.html "Afrofuturism: The Next Generation"], ''The New York Times'', 12 Dec 2016.
 
* Ruth La Ferladec, [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/fashion/afrofuturism-the-next-generation.html "Afrofuturism: The Next Generation"], ''The New York Times'', 12 Dec 2016.
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* Alice Inggs, [http://sci-hub.se/10.1080/02560046.2017.1383491 "The Suit Is Mine: ''Skhothane'' and the Aesthetic of the African Modern"], ''Critical Arts'' 31(3): "(Re)Fashioning African and African Diasporic Masculinities", 2017, pp 90-105.
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* Tobias Wofford, [http://sci-hub.se/10.1080/09528822.2018.1431472 "Afrofutures: Africa and the Aesthetics of Black Revolution"], ''Third Text'' 31:5-6, 2017, pp 633-649.
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* [https://monoskop.org/images/9/97/IDEA_52_2018.pdf#page=4 ''IDEA'' 52: "The Meaning of the Impossible"], Cluj, 2018, pp 5-31, [http://idea.ro/revista/en/issue/idea-52 HTML]. Special section of magazine. {{ro}}
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* Erik Steinskog, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/1a9dd6d0-fb9e-4ac8-93f6-16b1a2e12cb2 Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies: Culture, Technology, and Things to Come]'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
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* Inke Arns, Fabian Saavedra-Lara (eds.), ''Afro-Tech'', Dortmund: HMKV, Nov 2018, 164 pp. Magazine; documents the exhibition ''Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention'' (2017-2018) and the festival ''Afro-Tech Fest'' (2017). [https://www.behance.net/gallery/72112759/Afro-Tech-Magazine Excerpt]. [https://www.hmkv.de/exhibition/exhibition-detail/afro-tech-and-the-future-of-re-invention-en.html?file=files/hmkv/ausstellungen/03_Archiv/2017/AFRO/05_Publikation/AFRO-TECH_Ausstellung_Kurzfuehrer_Exhibition_Booklet.pdf Handout]. [https://www.hmkv.de/news-en/news-details/afro-tech-magazine-finally-published.html]
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* Pedro J.S. Vieira de Oliveira, [http://sci-hub.se/10.1080/17547075.2019.1609283 "Weaponizing Quietness: Sound Bombs and the Racialization of Noise"], ''Design and Culture'', 2019.
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* Sonya Linfors, Maryan Abdulkarim, [https://www.blackbox.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Lindfors-Abdulkarim.pdf "Afrofuturistic Dreams: Soft Steps Towards Revolution"], in Black Box teater, ''Publikasjon 3'', Oslo, 2019.
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* Kara Keeling, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/5f7e4ac5-f26e-4223-8ca6-40621504a3dd Queer Times, Black Futures]'', New York: NYU Press, 2019, 288 pp. [https://nyupress.org/9780814748336/queer-times-black-futures/]
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* Alex Zamalin, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22803 Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism]'', New York: Columbia University Press, 2019, x+182 pp.
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* Henriette Gunkel, kara lynch (eds.), ''We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions'', Bielefeld: transcript, 2019, 300 pp. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1138708885 TOC].
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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]
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* 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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* William Sites, ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/601fc6059ff37c27f02e81f7 Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City]'', University of Chicago Press, Dec 2020, 328 pp. [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo59259312.html Publisher].
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* Philip Butler (ed.), ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/606630ec9ff37c505c2e81fb Critical Black Futures: Speculative Theories and Explorations]'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 230 pp. [https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9789811578793 Publisher].
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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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* Afro-Futures, seminar, University of Warwick, 1996. Organised by Kodwo Eshun.
 
* [http://framerframed.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/L3-at-Smart-Project.pdf Modernity & Aesthetics of the New Black Atlantic: The State of L3 Pan African Contemporary Arts & Film Collective], exhibition, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Jul-Aug 2010. [http://www.mediamatic.net/153963/en/modernity-amp-aesthetics-of-the-new-black-atlantic]
 
* [http://framerframed.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/L3-at-Smart-Project.pdf Modernity & Aesthetics of the New Black Atlantic: The State of L3 Pan African Contemporary Arts & Film Collective], exhibition, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Jul-Aug 2010. [http://www.mediamatic.net/153963/en/modernity-amp-aesthetics-of-the-new-black-atlantic]
 
* [http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/superpower-africa-in-science-fiction Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction], exhibition curated by Nav Haq and Al Cameron at Arnolfini, Bristol, May-Jun 2012.
 
* [http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/superpower-africa-in-science-fiction Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction], exhibition curated by Nav Haq and Al Cameron at Arnolfini, Bristol, May-Jun 2012.
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* [http://civichall.org/events/afrofuturism/ Afrofuturism: Imagining the Future of Black Identity], panel discussion, Civic Hall, New York, 3 Dec 2015. [http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/dec/07/afrofuturism-black-identity-future-science-technology Commentary].
 
* [http://civichall.org/events/afrofuturism/ Afrofuturism: Imagining the Future of Black Identity], panel discussion, Civic Hall, New York, 3 Dec 2015. [http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/dec/07/afrofuturism-black-identity-future-science-technology Commentary].
 
* [http://www.debalie.nl/agenda/podium/afrofuturism:-a-new-dawn/e_9782669/p_11767938/ Afrofuturism: A New Dawn], evening, De Balie, Amsterdam, 23 Dec 2016. [https://i-d.vice.com/nl/article/afrofuturisme-volgens-de-kunstenaar-airich Interview] (NL).
 
* [http://www.debalie.nl/agenda/podium/afrofuturism:-a-new-dawn/e_9782669/p_11767938/ Afrofuturism: A New Dawn], evening, De Balie, Amsterdam, 23 Dec 2016. [https://i-d.vice.com/nl/article/afrofuturisme-volgens-de-kunstenaar-airich Interview] (NL).
* [http://www.hmkv.de/_en/programm/programmpunkte/2017/Ausstellungen/2017_AFR.php Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention], exhibition, HMKV, Dortmund, 21 Oct 2017-22 Apr 2018. Curated by [[Inke Arns]] (HMKV) und Fabian Saavedra-Lara (Interkultur Ruhr). Works by Sherif Adel, John Akomfrah, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Neïl Beloufa, Frances Bodomo, Drexciya, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Louis Henderson, Jaromil, Wanuri Kahiu, Kapwani Kiwanga, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Cristina de Middel, Fabrice Monteiro, Wangechi Mutu, The Otolith Group, RAMMELLZEE, Tabita Rezaire, Simon Rittmeier, Soda_Jerk. [http://www.dortmunder-u.de/en/event/afro-tech-and-future-re-invention]
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* [https://www.hmkv.de/exhibition/exhibition-detail/afro-tech-and-the-future-of-re-invention-en.html Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention], exhibition, HMKV, Dortmund, 21 Oct 2017-22 Apr 2018. Curated by [[Inke Arns]] (HMKV) and Fabian Saavedra-Lara (Interkultur Ruhr). Works by Sherif Adel, John Akomfrah, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Neïl Beloufa, Frances Bodomo, Drexciya, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Louis Henderson, Jaromil, Wanuri Kahiu, Kapwani Kiwanga, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Cristina de Middel, Fabrice Monteiro, Wangechi Mutu, The Otolith Group, RAMMELLZEE, Tabita Rezaire, Simon Rittmeier, Soda_Jerk. [http://www.dortmunder-u.de/en/event/afro-tech-and-future-re-invention]
 
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* [https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/enter-afrofuturism/enter-afrofuturism-talks-workshop Enter Afrofuturism], concerts, talks, workshop & screenings, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, 7-12 Nov 2017. Curated by Voltnoi & Quetempo (DETACH). With Sun Ra Arkestra, Actress, Dopplereffekt, Moor Mother, A Guy Called Gerald, ATH Kids, Nkisi, Black Quantum Futurism, Black Athena, Nathalie Mba Bikoro, Louis Chude-Sokei, Reynaldo Anderson, A Guy Called Gerald, The Otolith Group, Black Athena, Tabita Rezaire, Nkisi, Abdul Qadim Haqq.
==Links==
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* [https://otherfutures.nl Other Futures] festival, Melkweg & Sugarfactory, Amsterdam, 2-4 Feb 2018. Focusing on non-Western science fiction.
* [http://www.afrofuturistaffair.com/ The Afrofuturist Affair], Philadelphia AfroFuturists community.
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* [https://www.tropenmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/afrofuturism Afrofuturism], exhibition, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Apr-Aug 2018. Works by Bob Mũchiri Njenga, Samuel Fosso, Kadara Enyeasi, and Osborne Macharia. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_ebX5me_eQ Video].
* [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/]
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* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrofutures-festivalintersections-of-futures-thinking-afrofuturist-visioning-tickets-55301809200 AfroFutures Festival—Intersections of Futures Thinking & AfroFuturist Visioning], Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, CA, 2 Mar 2019.
* [http://blackquantumfuturism.tumblr.com/ Black Quantum Futurism] collective.
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* [https://www.ica.art/live/black-quantum-futurism-temporal-deprogramming Black Quantum Futurism: Temporal Deprogramming], exhibition, ICA, London, 13-25 Aug 2019.
  
  
 
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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. [5]
    • "Black to the Future: Afro-Futurismus", in Loving the Alien, ed. Diedrich Diederichsen, Berlin: ID, 1998. (German)
  • Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant Than The Sun. Adventures in Sonic Fiction, London: Quartet Books, 1998, 17+222 pp; 2nd ed., London: Verso, 2018, 240 pp. [6]
    • Heller als die Sonne: Abenteuer in der Sonic Fiction, trans. Dietmar Dath, Berlin: ID-Archiv, 1999, 238 pp. (German)
    • Más brillante que el sol: incursiones en la ficción sónica, trans. Tadeo Lima, Buenos Aires: Caja Negra, 2018, 328 pp. (Spanish)
  • Diedrich Diederichsen (ed.), Loving the Alien. Science Fiction, Diaspora, Multikultur, Berlin: ID, 1998, 224 pp. [7] (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.
  • Kodwo Eshun, "Further Considerations on Afrofuturism", The New Centennial Review 3:2, Summer 2003, pp 287-302.
    • "Outras considerações sobre o afrofuturismo", in Histórias afro-atlânticas, vol. 2: antologia, eds. Adriano Pedrosa, Amanda Carneiro, André Mesquita, São Paulo: Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), and Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 2018. [10] (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Science Fiction Studies 34:2 (102): "Afrofuturism", Jul 2007. [11]
  • Adilifu Nama, Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film, 2008.
Bibliographies

Events


Literature
groups, movements, cultures

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