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==Resources==
 
==Resources==
 
* [http://afrofuturism.net/ Afrofuturism.net], ed. Kali Tal. [http://web.archive.org/web/20190218032039/http://afrofuturism.net/ Archived version].
 
* [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.
 
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20181021235236/http://afrofuturism.net/webography/ Webography on Afrofuturism.net]
 
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20181021235236/http://afrofuturism.net/webography/ Webography on Afrofuturism.net]
  
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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}}
  
* 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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* 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]
  
 
* 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]
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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.
 
* 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.
  
* 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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* 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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** ''Più brillante del sole: avventure nella fantasonica'', trans. Alessandro Mazzi, Rome: Nero, 2021, 281 pp. {{it}}
  
 
* 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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* 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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** "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}}
  
 
* ''[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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* [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, 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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* ''[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]
 
* 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]
 
* 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]
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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}}
 
* [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}}
 
* 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.
 
* 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] [https://hmkv.de/shop-en/shop-detail/afro-tech-publication.html]
 
* 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.
 
* 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.
 
* 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.
 
* 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.
 
* 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/]
 
* 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.), ''[https://book4you.org/book/17224042/0f5f06 We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions]'', Bielefeld: transcript, 2019, 300 pp. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1138708885 TOC]. [https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4601-6/we-travel-the-space-ways/?number=978-3-8376-4601-6]
 
* 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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* 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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==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.

Revision as of 17:02, 13 December 2021

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)
    • Più brillante del sole: avventure nella fantasonica, trans. Alessandro Mazzi, Rome: Nero, 2021, 281 pp. (Italian)
  • 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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