{"id":238,"date":"2015-10-30T17:43:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T16:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/?p=238"},"modified":"2017-07-24T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T10:14:34","slug":"afrofuturists-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/afrofuturists-anonymous\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Afrofuturists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1420\" src=\"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/BsttF_visuel_Ilda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1691\" height=\"1691\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/BsttF_visuel_Ilda.jpg 1691w, http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/BsttF_visuel_Ilda-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/BsttF_visuel_Ilda-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/BsttF_visuel_Ilda-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/BsttF_visuel_Ilda-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1691px) 100vw, 1691px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mark Dery recommends :<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6088\/the-art-of-fiction-no-210-samuel-r-delany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samuel R. Delany, The Art of Fiction n\u00b0210 on <em>The Paris Review <\/em>website<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafardcosmique.com\/DELANY-Samuel-Ray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samuel R. Delany biography of French sci-fi-oriented website Le Cafard Cosmique<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/futuristicallyancient.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The future is always here in the past&#8221; Amiri Baraka \/ Aker:Futuristically Ancient<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrofuturistaffair.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Afrofuturistic Affair&#8221; website<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/news-opinion\/news-bfi\/features\/inside-afrofuturism-sonic-companion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Afrofuturism : a sonic companion<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zulunation.co.uk\/inside-afrofuturism-afrika-bambaataa-bfi-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Afrofuturism with Afrika Bambaataa on Zulu Nation UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/49553188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contemporary Talks with Greg Tate<\/a>\u00a0: a brilliant exercise in social critique and the archaeology of ideas<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sleepdealer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first Latino\/aFuturismo SF movie by Alex Rivera, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sleep Dealer<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2008)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Artwork :<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">M.Y. for B(s)ttF<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For better or for worse, I am often spoken of as the first African-American science fiction writer. But [among] the ranks of what is often referred to as proto-science fiction, there are a number of black writers. [M. P. Shiel, Martin Delany, Sutton E. Griggs, Edward Johnson&#8230;] I believe I first heard Harlan Ellison make the point that we know of dozens upon dozens of early pulp writers only as names [&#8230;] we simply have no way of knowing [how many] were not blacks, Hispanics, women, native Americans, Asians, or whatever. Writing is like that.&#8221; Samuel R. 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