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Hypeful worlds

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 527-539, November 2024.
Abstract Contemporary technoscience is rife with hype—inflated claims that rapidly propagate in favor of the next “new thing.” While scholars often strive to debunk and dispel hype, Tanzanian technologists working in health care face a different challenge: navigating hype.
Tom Neumark
wiley   +1 more source

From Cyberpunk to Afrofuturism: A Talk About American Science Fiction Movements

open access: yesEmerging 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
doaj   +1 more source

A Blackqueer Afrofuturism?: A Review of Elyse Ambrose's A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics

open access: yes
Religious Studies Review, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 487-489, June 2026.
Roger A. Sneed
wiley   +1 more source

What do recently housed young people imagine for the future of third places? Using game‐based inquiry to (re)imagine affirming, youth‐centered third places

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 74, Issue 1-2, Page 127-141, September 2024.
Abstract Third places—public and community settings like parks and libraries—are theorized to serve as sources of social connection, community, and play. Yet, young people who hold marginalized identities, such as those experiencing homelessness and housing instability, often endure discrimination in third place settings.
Danielle Maude Littman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

PAIR UP Imaging Science Program, a new framework for a diverse scientific workforce

open access: yesJournal of Cellular Physiology, Volume 239, Issue 7, July 2024.
Abstract PAIR‐UP is a new conceptual framework for developing a diverse scientific workforce for the 21st century. PAIR‐UP stand for Partnering to Advance Imaging Research for Underrepresented scientists Program. The goal of PAIR‐UP is to solve the longstanding and wicked problem of underrepresentation of Black scientists in the imaging science field ...
George M. Langford
wiley   +1 more source

Foresight and futures thinking for international development co‐operation: Promises and pitfalls

open access: yesDevelopment Policy Review, Volume 42, Issue S1, June 2024.
Abstract Motivation Strategic foresight is gaining traction for anticipating changes in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world—one which will require different mindsets and approaches. Yet international development co‐operation practitioners have been slow to adopt foresight.
Fraser Reilly‐King   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Stories one tells in dark times”: Fabulation, fugitivity, and futurity in Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Serpentinen Angst

open access: yesThe German Quarterly, Volume 97, Issue 1, Page 75-92, Winter 2024.
Abstract This article engages with aesthetic acts of experimentation in Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Serpentinen Angst. Building on recent scholarship on the politics of aesthetics in Wenzel's text, I argue that these experiments are intertwined with key themes in the book, particularly issues of racialization and of Black (im‐)possibility in present‐day ...
Maria Roca Lizarazu
wiley   +1 more source

Immagine della crisi / Crisi dell'immagine. Critica all'egemonia culturale del realismo e diritto all'opacità in Hydra Decapita (2011), un film saggio di The Otolith Group

open access: yesIm@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary, 2015
This article reflects on the ways in which the relation between crisis and imaginary is articulated in Hydra Decapita, a 2011 essay-film by the British art collective The Otolith Group.
Beatrice Ferrara
doaj  

August Wilson, Afrofuturism, & Gem of the Ocean

open access: yesOpen 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
doaj   +1 more source

BLACKNESS AND DIS/ABILITY IN THE AFROFUTURIST CHRISTMAS NOVELLA SYNCHRONICITY (2015) BY SHARON DODUA OTOO*

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 33-50, January 2024.
ABSTRACT Charlie, the main character in Sharon Dodua Otoo's Afrofuturist Christmas novella Synchronicity, is a Black single mother of Ghanaian heritage working as a graphic designer in Berlin who has spent her whole life feeling the constraints of her ancestral traditions.
joseph kebe‐nguema
wiley   +1 more source

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