{"id":1049,"date":"2016-12-19T10:50:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T09:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2017-04-18T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T08:37:38","slug":"3-steps-to-afrofuturism-conceptualisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/3-steps-to-afrofuturism-conceptualisation\/","title":{"rendered":"3 steps to Afrofuturism: CONCEPTUALISATION"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Read, watch or listen to:<\/h2>\n

Afrofuturism: The Next Generation<\/a> (Ruth La Ferla, The New York Times)<\/p>\n

Une arme pour le futur<\/a> + Afrique, pre\u0301sence des futurs<\/a> (Alain Vicky, Le Monde Diplomatique)<\/p>\n

How The Prefix \u2018Afro-\u2018 May Arrest Imagination & Manifesto Salesmanship<\/a> (Phetogo Tshepo Mahasha, Indie Wire)<\/p>\n

Is the prefix Afro- (as in “Afro-futurism”) arresting our imagination…<\/a> (Rasheedah Phillips, The AfroFuturist Affair)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Artwork:<\/h2>\n

M.Y. for B(s)ttF<\/p>\n

Translation by Justine Rousseau<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Afrofuturism\u2019s relation to fiction and even sometimes science-fiction helped it come forward. It is more than a way to esape, as it offers alternatives to a present that we have no grasp on and that can deprive us from our existence. It is the advent of using new imaginaries as critical tools to question the world in order to come up with new narrations of History. Afrofuturism is full of authors who present new \u2014 more or less radical but always new \u2014 representations of the world in order to think of, imagine and concretize another version of the world. Beyond dreams, Afrofuturism becomes a prospective methodology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syncretics","tag-afrofuturism","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}