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** ''Heller als die Sonne: Abenteuer in der Sonic Fiction'', trans. Dietmar Dath, Berlin: ID-Archiv, 1999, 238 pp. {{de}}
 
** ''Heller als die Sonne: Abenteuer in der Sonic Fiction'', trans. Dietmar Dath, Berlin: ID-Archiv, 1999, 238 pp. {{de}}
 
** ''Más brillante que el sol: incursiones en la ficción sónica'', trans. Tadeo Lima, Buenos Aires: Caja Negra, 2018, 328 pp. {{es}}
 
** ''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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* [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.
* 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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* 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/]
 
* 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.
 
* 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.
* 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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* 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.

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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