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, 2019 This essay addresses how Africanist choreography operates as a practice of cultural citizenship, focussing on the work of Thomas ‘Talawa’ Prestø as a leading figure in shaping the cultural sphere for choreography based on African and diaspora forms in ...
Adewole, Funmi
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The Futurism of Hip Hop: Space, Electro and Science Fiction in Rap
Open Cultural Studies, 2018 In the early 1980s, an important facet of hip hop culture developed a style of music known as electro-rap, much of which carries narratives linked to science fiction, fantasy and references to arcade games and comic books.
de Paor-Evans Adam
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Afrofuturism as Reconstitution
Critical Analysis of Law, 2022 This paper argues that Afrofuturism is defined by the work of reconstitution. By undoing in fiction what is socially familiar and naturalized in practice and in history—whether unconscious racist common sense or the sense of political and legal stasis—Afrofuturism opens up a vantage for a utopian reconsideration of the (racially unequal) status quo.
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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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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Marvel's 2022 blockbuster film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was marked by the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020, resulting in the cinematic death of his character T'Challa. For US Black audiences, the imagined nation of Wakanda served as more than entertainment, but a diasporic “home” at a time of deepening anti‐Blackness and ...
Marissa Smith Morgan
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African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly ...
Patricia Daley +10 more
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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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The Metaphysics of Crackle: Afrofuturism and Hauntology
Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 2013 There has always been an intrinsically “hauntological” dimension to recorded music. But Derrida’s concept of hauntology has gained a new currency in the 21st century, when music has lost its sense of futurism, and succumbed to the pastiche- and retro ...
Mark Fisher
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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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Social Issues and Policy Review, Volume 19, Issue 1, December 2025.Abstract In this paper, I propose a multidimensional model of cultural appropriation, including psychological antecedents of appropriation, policy‐level moderators, and implications for racial oppression. In terms of antecedents, I discuss how colorblind racism, aversive racism, and system justification contribute to two dimensions of cultural ...
Ariel J. Mosley
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