{"id":336,"date":"2015-11-11T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/?p=336"},"modified":"2017-07-24T11:15:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T10:15:02","slug":"unspoken-afrofuturists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/unspoken-afrofuturists\/","title":{"rendered":"Unspoken Afrofuturists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0Mark Dery recommends :<\/h2>\n

\u201cBlack in the future : how women in pop are carrying the mantle of afrofuturism\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Whatever Nalo Hopkinson is up to.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture<\/span><\/i>, by Ytasha L. Womack (2013).<\/span>\u2014 \u201ca useful introduction for the general reader.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements<\/span><\/i>, by Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown (2015).<\/span><\/p>\n

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora<\/span><\/i>, by Sheree R. Thomas (2000).<\/span>\u2014 \u201can older title, but more relevant than ever.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfrofuturism\/Chicanafuturism: Fictive Kin\u201d, an article by Catherine S. Ram\u00edrez (2008).<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u2014 \u201cthe first critical\/theoretical foray into the philosophical border zone of the emerging Xicano\/a and Latino\/a futurismos that are following Afrofuturism\u2019s lead, exploring the politics of science and technology, and representations of science and technology, from a brown perspective\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The \u201cShadows Took Shape\u201d art exhibition at the Studio Museum of Harlem<\/a>, in New York (nov 2013 – mar 2014) ;<\/span><\/p>\n

This brilliant exercise in social critique and the archaeology of ideas<\/a> by Greg Tate<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Artwork :<\/h2>\n

M.Y. pour B(s)ttF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In ‘The Shadows Took Shape’ exhibition catalog essay, Alondra Nelson wrote that \u201cin the zeal for a liberatory detour, Afrofuturism [has come] to be more likely embodied by Sun Ra, George Clinton, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ralph Ellison, and \u2018The Brother from Another Planet\u2019\u201d than by women like LaBelle, Ellen Gallagher, Laila Ali, Jewelle Gomez, and Nyota Uhura. [While] queerness (in the broadest sense) of past-future visionaries such as Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, and Nalo Hopkinson too often goes unappreciated as a central feature of black futurist aesthetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[37,33],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syncretics","tag-black-swag-empowerment","tag-afrofuturism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","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=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}