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A new take on Afrofuturism, this book gathers together a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of 500 years of contact between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, reach towards the stars and unknown planets, galaxies, and ways of being. Writing from queer and feminist perspectives and circumnavigating continents, they recalibrate definitions of Afrofuturism. The editors and contributors of this exciting volume thus reflect upon the re-emergence of Black visions of political and cultural futures, proposing practices, identities, and collectivities.
With contributions from AfroFuturist Affair, John Akomfrah, Jamika Ajalon, Stefanie Alisch, Jim Chuchu, Grisha Coleman, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Abigail DeVille, M. Asli Dukan with Wildseeds, Kodwo Eshun, Anna Everett, Raimi Gbadamosi, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Milumbe Haimbe, Ayesha Hameed, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Kara Keeling, Carla J. Maier, Tobias Nagl, Tavia Nyongo, Rasheedah Phillips, Daniel Kojo Schrade, Nadine Siegert, Robyn Smith, Greg Tate and Frohawk Two Feathers.
Henriette Gunkel (PhD) is lecturer at the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work focusses on the politics of time from a decolonizing, queer-feminist perspective. She is working on a monograph on Alien Time that focusses on Africanist science-fictional interventions. She is the author of The Cultural Politics of Female Sexuality in South Africa (Routledge, 2010) and co-editor of What Can a Body Do? (Campus, 2012), Undutiful Daughters. New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice (Palgrave McMillan, 2012), and Futures & Fictions (Repeater, 2017), which was nominated for the 2018 International Center of Photography's Infinity Award in the Critical Writing and Research category.
kara lynch (MFA) is a time-based artist living in the Bronx, NY who earns a living as an Associate Professor of Video and Critical Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Ambivalent towards hyper-visual culture, she is curious about duration, embodiment, and aural experience; and through low-fi, collective practice and social intervention lynch explores aesthetic/political relationships between time + space. Her work is vigilantly raced, classed, and gendered - Black, queer and feminist. Major projects include: `Black Russians' - a feature documentary video (2001), `The Outing' - a video travelogue (1999-2004), `Mouhawala Oula' - a gender-bending trio performance for oriental dance, live video, and saxophone (2009). The current project 'INVISIBLE', an episodic, speculative, multi-site video/audio installation - excavates the terror and resilient beauty of Black experience.
Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 5
Acknowledgement 9
Black Astrophysics: A Homemade Field of Love 15
Lift Off an Introduction 21
City of Mirage 47
Reach, Robot: AfroFuturist Technologies 53
Glitches Running Trains Out In Negrizonia, A Gynocidal Western 69
To Win the War, You Fought It Sideways: Kojo Laing's Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars 83
Black Atlantis 107
The Palace of the Quilombos 129
The Sound of Afrofuturism 133
The Revolutionist 151
The Crypt of Blackness: or Assotto Saint with Gilles Deleuze 175
Rise of the Astro Blacks 199
The Archivist's Vault :: Door Of No Return 205
An Afrofuturist Time Capsule - One Point in Space-Time in the Collective Consciousness of Black Speculation 211
Organize Your Own Temporality: Notes on Self-Determined Temporalities and Radical Futurities 237
"I Feel Love": Race, Gender, Techn, and the (Im)Proper Sonic Habitus 245
Afrofuturism On My Mind: Imagining Black Lives in a Post-Obama World 251
Brother Kyot 281
Intervening into the Future Script: A Conversation about Fiction, Magic, and the Speculative Power of Images 287
Dismantle Imperia 303
Textures of Time - Abstraction, Afronauts, and the Archive in the Artwork of Daniel Kojo Schrade 321
There Are Storytellers Everywhere 343
Prophetika 357
The Secessionist Manifestos of Certain Received Wisdoms 363
They Sent You? 371
Alienation and Queer Discontent 387
FAR SPACE-WISE - Without Edges a Center Cannot Exist in Stasis 405
Future 433
Authors 441