Lift Off… an Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgement 9
4. 0. Constellation
5. Black Astrophysics: A Homemade Field of Love 15
6. Lift Off… an Introduction 21
7. I.
8. City of Mirage 47
9. Reach, Robot: AfroFuturist Technologies 53
10. Glitches Running Trains Out In Negrizonia, A Gynocidal Western 69
11. To Win the War, You Fought It Sideways: Kojo Laing’s Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars 83
12. Black Atlantis 107
13. II.
14. The Palace of the Quilombos 129
15. The Sound of Afrofuturism 133
16. The Revolutionist 151
17. The Crypt of Blackness: or Assotto Saint with Gilles Deleuze 175
18. Rise of the Astro Blacks 199
19. III.
20. The Archivist’s Vault :: Door Of No Return 205
21. An Afrofuturist Time Capsule – One Point in Space-Time in the Collective Consciousness of Black Speculation 211
22. Organize Your Own Temporality: Notes on Self-Determined Temporalities and Radical Futurities 237
23. “I Feel Love”: Race, Gender, Technē, and the (Im)Proper Sonic Habitus 245
24. Afrofuturism On My Mind: Imagining Black Lives in a Post-Obama World 251
25. IV.
26. Brother Kyot 281
27. Intervening into the Future Script: A Conversation about Fiction, Magic, and the Speculative Power of Images 287
28. Dismantle Imperia 303
29. Textures of Time – Abstraction, Afronauts, and the Archive in the Artwork of Daniel Kojo Schrade 321
30. There Are Storytellers Everywhere 343
31. V.
32. Prophetika 357
33. The Secessionist Manifestos of Certain Received Wisdoms 363
34. They Sent You? 371
35. Alienation and Queer Discontent 387
36. FAR SPACE-WISE – Without Edges a Center Cannot Exist in Stasis 405
37. VI. Final Orbit
38. Future 433
39. Authors 441