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BLACK(S) TO THE FUTURE FESTIVAL
In case you missed it : Black(s) to the future is launching its first festival in few days in Paris, the 2nd & 3rd of july !
Philippi Music Project
Philippi is the name of a township of Cape Town (South Africa), but it is also the origin of Philippi Music Project, a social innovation and musical project launched in 2014 by Sibusiso Nyamakazi and Baptiste Guillemet.
[MIXTAPE #3] by Pierre-Henri Kanyinda
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Interview w/ Mark Dery (4/4) : alternative futures & the (ambiguous) place of Africa
Following a not-that-unlikely-anymore forecast; the new promises of nanotechnologies and Artificial Intelligence appear to make the threat of Human disappearance bound to happen. This said, the announcements made from transhumanists to Singularity upholder should be more than urgently put through a critical riddle…
[MIXTAPE #2] by DJ Cucurucho
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Interview w/ Mark Dery (3/4) : The misleading promises of one obvious bright future
After he gave us his view on “What stands beyond Afrofuturism?”(2/4) Mark Dery urges us not to forget that the core essence of Afrofuturism was of a constant combat by all means, of a black community seeing itself denied any technological ability (3/4).
Mark Dery (1/4) – portrait
Critic, essayist, book author, lecturer, journalist, Newyorker…, Mark Dery has surely been a trend observer – and eventually whistle blower – of urban life and techno culture for the past twenty years. We also owe him the term afrofuturism, which he first coined in an article entitled “Black to the future” (named after alternative hip hop musician and rapper Def Jef’s track).