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Continuing the Conversation around Afrofuturism: The Black Fantastic Bibliography Project [PDF]
, 2021 The Black Panther film is the nexus between the what could be and the what could have been of Black futurity. Afrofuturism and its incarnations is reflective and invested in recovery and reclamation. The bibliography, then, is a technology for recovering
Clarissa West-White, Seretha Williams
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, 2021 El artículo tiene como objetivo posicionar el afrofuturismo como un proyecto de design. Para ello, parte de un tejido de significados del design— propuesto por Cardoso, Papanek y Flusser— para contextualizar la actividad desde la amplitud inherente de su concepto, aliado a las definiciones de Afrofuturismo propuestas por Yaszek y Dery, que lo ...
Nunes, Cynthia Maria Rocha +1 more
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Encounters in Theory and History of EducationHow can STEM education benefit from a paradigm shift, beyond economic growth and citizenship development, towards alternative perspectives for problem-solving to combat anthropogenic dilemmas? This conceptual essay investigates why we should incorporate
Tiffany Harris
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“Okay ladies, now let’s get in formation!”: Music Videos and the Construction of Cultural Memory
Open Cultural Studies, 2017 This paper explores strategies for constructing and perpetuating cultural memory through music videos, using Beyonce’s Formation (2016) and Janelle Monae’s Many Moons (2008) and Q.U.E.E.N. (2013) as case studies. The medium’s idiosyncrasies create unique
Bertens Laura M. F.
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Time in Afrofuturism, Classroom Time, and Carceral Time
Radical Teacher, 2022 This essay describes teaching Afrofuturism in a small liberal arts college and a state prison, during the time of the pandemic. Questions about time are central to Afrofuturist literature, art, and scholarship, and the altered timeframes of both COVID ...
Wendy W. Walters
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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Afrofuturism and Splendor & Misery [PDF]
, 2019 A countercultural movement characterised by a dynamic understanding of the narrative authority held by texts, Afrofuturism rewrites African culture in a speculative vein, granting African and Afrodiasporic peoples a culturally empowered means of writing ...
Hay, Jonathan
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Radical re-envisionings : ancient Egypt, Afrofuturism, and FKA twigs [PDF]
, 2015 textThis report considers the role of ancient Egyptian culture and iconography within the genre/aesthetic known as Afrofuturism. It aims to position Afrofuturism at the juncture between alternative and activist media and genre media, highlighting the ...
Ibrahim, Amina McKenna
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Indigenous Futurities: Theorizing Futurity in the Past and Present
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 330-338, June 2026.ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, a growing number of activists, scholars, writers, and visual artists have engaged with futurism as a framework for representing the lives of Indigenous peoples. Inspired by this hopeful reframing of the past‐present‐future, contributions to this special section of American Anthropologist address the question: How can ...
Lindsay Martel Montgomery +1 more
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Chronopolitics in a minor key: Afrofuturism and social death [PDF]
, 2021 Chronopolitics in a minor key: Afrofuturism and social ...
Timothy Deane-Freeman (13067904)
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