We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions

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We Travel the Space Ways

Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions

Edited by: Henriette Gunkel and kara lynch

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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A new take on Afrofuturism, this book gathers together a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of 500 years of contact between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, reach towards the stars and unknown planets, galaxies, and ways of being. Writing from queer and feminist perspectives and circumnavigating continents, they recalibrate definitions of Afrofuturism. The editors and contributors of this exciting volume thus reflect upon the re-emergence of Black visions of political and cultural futures, proposing practices, identities, and collectivities.

With contributions from AfroFuturist Affair, John Akomfrah, Jamika Ajalon, Stefanie Alisch, Jim Chuchu, Grisha Coleman, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Abigail DeVille, M. Asli Dukan with Wildseeds, Kodwo Eshun, Anna Everett, Raimi Gbadamosi, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Milumbe Haimbe, Ayesha Hameed, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Kara Keeling, Carla J. Maier, Tobias Nagl, Tavia Nyongo, Rasheedah Phillips, Daniel Kojo Schrade, Nadine Siegert, Robyn Smith, Greg Tate and Frohawk Two Feathers.

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Besprochen in:

Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, 22/1 (2020), Vera Mader

www.centrum3.at, 6 (2020)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
0. Constellation
Black Astrophysics: A Homemade Field of Love Dedicated to Clyde Eliot Gumbs Alexis Pauline Gumbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
Lift Off… an Introduction Kara Lynch and Henriette Gunkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
I.
City of Mirage Kiluanji Kia Henda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
Reach, Robot: AfroFuturist Technologies Grisha Coleman and Thomas F. Defrantz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
Glitches Running Trains Out In Negrizonia, A Gynocidal Western Greg Tate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	69
To Win the War, You Fought It Sideways: Kojo Laing’s Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars Kodwo Eshun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
Black Atlantis Ayesha Hameed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
II.
The Palace of the Quilombos Frohawk Two Feathers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
The Sound of Afrofuturism Stefanie Alisch and Carla J. Maier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
The Revolutionist Milumbe Haimbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
The Crypt of Blackness: or Assotto Saint with Gilles Deleuze Tavia Nyong’O Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Rise of the Astro Blacks Greg Tate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
III.
The Archivist’s Vault :: Door Of No Return Kara Lynch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
An Afrofuturist Time Capsule – One Point in Space-Time in the Collective Consciousness of Black Speculation M. Asli Dukan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
Organize Your Own Temporality: Notes on Self-Determined Temporalities and Radical Futurities Rasheedah Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
“I Feel Love”: Race, Gender, Technē, and the (Im)Proper Sonic Habitus Kara Keeling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
Afrofuturism On My Mind: Imagining Black Lives in a Post-Obama World Anna Everett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
IV.
Brother Kyot Daniel Kojo Schrade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
Intervening into the Future Script: A Conversation about Fiction, Magic, and the Speculative Power of Images Kiluanji Kia Henda and Nadine Siegert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	287
Dismantle Imperia Robyn Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	303
Textures of Time – Abstraction, Afronauts, and the Archive in the Artwork of Daniel Kojo Schrade Tobias Nagl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	321
There Are Storytellers Everywhere Raimi Gbadamosi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
V.
Prophetika Abigail Deville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
The Secessionist Manifestos of Certain Received Wisdoms John Akomfrah and Kodwo Eshun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	363
They Sent You? Jim Chuchu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
Alienation and Queer Discontent Henriette Gunkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	387
FAR SPACE-WISE – Without Edges a Center Cannot Exist in Stasis Jamika Ajalon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	405
VI. Final Orbit
Future Rasheedah Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	433
Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	441

Publishing information

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

June 17, 2019

eBook ISBN:

9783839446010

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

452

Illustrations:

66

Coloured Illustrations:

58

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839446010

eBook ISBN: 9783839446010

Keywords for this book

Afrofuturism; Afrofuturism; African Science Fiction; African Science Fiction; Time; Time; Art; Art; Diaspora; Diaspora; Postcolonialism; Postcolonialism; Gender; Gender; Gender Studies; Gender Studies; African Art; African Art; Africa; Africa; Cultural Studies; Cultural Studies

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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research

We Travel the Space Ways

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