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My Soul Looks Beyond in Wonder: Curating Faith, Freedom, and Futurity at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Religions, 2023
This article offers a description and critical reflection upon two recent exhibits on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC): Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism, and Popular Culture and ...
Michael Brandon McCormack
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Imagining Action in/Against the Anthropocene: Narrative Impasse and the Necessity of Alternatives to Effect Resistance [PDF]

, 2019
The Anthropocene has emerged as the dominant conception of the contemporary moment, centering the human individual as both responsible for and bearing the responsibility to counteract its numerous interrelated socioeconomic, political, and environmental ...
Kroon, Ariel
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From Cyberpunk to Afrofuturism: A Talk About American Science Fiction Movements

Emerging Media, 2023
In this talk, I want to introduce some important current American science fiction movements to a Chinese audience. After establishing a baseline understanding of the popular science fiction tradition, I will briefly review the development of Cyberpunk ...
Henry Jenkins
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Afrofuturist Worlds: The Diseased Colonial Imagination and Christian Hope

Journal of Moral Theology
This article argues that the cultural tradition of Afrofuturism offers one potential solution to the diseased Christian colonial imagination diagnosed in the work of Willie James Jennings.
Adam Beyt
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The Comic at the Crossroads: The Semiotics of ‘Voodoo Storytelling’ in The Hole: Consumer Culture Vol. 1

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 2019
This article focuses on the use of religious semiology in the 2008 Black graphic novel The Hole: Consumer Culture Vol. 1 by Damian Duffy and John Jennings.
Lisa Kottas, Martin Schwarzenbacher
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Foreword: After Afrofuturism [PDF]

Journal of the Society for American Music, 2008
Welcome to our special issue on Technology and Black Music in the Americas. As guest editor, I'd like to offer my personal thanks to all of our contributors, who are exploring relatively uncharted currents in the overall flow of black music technology. I'd also like to thank JSAM editor Ellie M.
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Production technologies and studio practice in electronic dance music culture: guest editors' introduction [PDF]

, 2014
This article explores the religio-spiritual characteristics of psytrance (psychedelic trance), attending specifically to the characteristics of what I call neotrance apparent within the contemporary trance event, the countercultural inheritance of the ...
Montano, Ed, Zagorski-Thomas, Simon
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Correlation between Afrofuturism and science fiction in Space is the Place: praxis or paradox?

Diffractions, 2023
In this paper, I use the culture studies approach to investigate how themes such as the space age, psychedelia and the creation of a post-apocalyptic black colony in the film Space is the Place (Coney 1972), interweave with Darko Suvin's (1974) concept ...
Gloria Adjeiwaa Fofie
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Mapping immaterial flows : how consumption invisibilizes labor : the satellite and shipping container [PDF]

, 2018
The kiosk system went down and everyone missed their flight. I had this experience recently at Chicago O’Hare International airport when I was flying to Austin.
Ali, Hiba
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The Ontology of the Ship: Celestial Ecologies in Tade Thompson’s Rosewater and Octavia Butler’s Dawn

Caliban: French Journal of English Studies
This essay argues that our discourses about objects, specifically space ships, can be read ontologically because our construction of space ships reflects dimensions of affect relative to our own being.
Stefanie K. Dunning
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