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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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Ethnoforgery and Outsider Afrofuturism

Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 2013
This essay detours from Afrofuturism proper into ethnological forgery and Outsider practices, foregrounding the issues of authenticity, authorship and identity which measure Afrofuturism’s ongoing relevance to technocultural conditions and the globally ...
Trace Reddell
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Contested Children's Literature: Que(e)ries into Chicana and Central American Autofantasias [PDF]

, 2015
Citation: Millan, I. (2015). Contested Children's Literature: Que(e)ries into Chicana and Central American Autofantasias. Signs, 41(1), 199-224.
Millan, Isabel
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The African fashion movement and Afrofuturism in celebrating identity [PDF]

, 2018
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Williams, Sarah
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Capital as Artificial Intelligence [PDF]

, 2015
This article examines science-fictional allegorizations of Soviet-style planned economies, financial markets, autonomous trading algorithms, and global capitalism writ large as nonhuman artificial intelligences, focussing primarily on American science ...
Canavan, Gerry
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The "Robot Voodoo Power" thesis: Afrofuturism and anti-anti-essentialism from Sun Ra to Kool Keith [PDF]

, 2017
In the 1990s the term Afrofuturism emerged to describe a vein of science fiction inspired artistic production that repositions black subjects in a purportedly race free future that is nonetheless coded as white.
Rollefson, J. Griffith
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“I’d Rather Be in Afghanistan”: Antinomies of \u3cem\u3eBattle: Los Angeles\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

, 2014
This article reads Battle: Los Angeles (2011) against the grain to argue that the film possesses an antiwar undertow running unexpectedly counter to its surface-level pro-military politics. The article uses the antinomy structuring Battle: Los Angeles as
Canavan, Gerry
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August Wilson, Afrofuturism, & Gem of the Ocean

Open Cultural Studies, 2018
August Wilson's Century Cycle is as much a theatrical experiment of black cultural history and sociology as it is one of storytelling. Though often considered a realist playwright, Wilson walks beyond the realist landscape into speculative and imagined ...
Boynton Anthony Dwayne
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Janelle Monáe’s Sartorial Reconceptualization of the Black Gendered Body

Open Cultural Studies, 2022
Janelle Monáe is known for her black and white attire, pompadour hairstyles, James Brown-inspired dance moves, android alter-ego (Cindi Mayweather), and bent toward Afrofuturism. Monáe is also known for her politics.
Walters Tracey
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African Afro-futurism: Allegories and Speculations

Current Musicology, 2017
In his seminal text, More Brilliant Than The Sun, Kodwo Eshun remarks upon a general tension within contemporary African-American music: a tension between the “Soulful” and the “Postsoul.” While acknowledging that the two terms are always simultaneously ...
Gavin Steingo
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