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

www.centrum3.at, 6 (2020)

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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgement
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0. Constellation
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Black Astrophysics: A Homemade Field of Love
15
Alexis Pauline Gumbs

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Lift Off… an Introduction
21
Kara Lynch and Henriette Gunkel

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City of Mirage
47
Kiluanji Kia Henda

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Reach, Robot: AfroFuturist Technologies
53
Grisha Coleman and Thomas F. Defrantz

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Glitches Running Trains Out In Negrizonia, A Gynocidal Western
69
Greg Tate

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To Win the War, You Fought It Sideways: Kojo Laing’s Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars
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Kodwo Eshun

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Black Atlantis
107
Ayesha Hameed

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The Palace of the Quilombos
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Frohawk Two Feathers

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The Sound of Afrofuturism
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Stefanie Alisch and Carla J. Maier

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The Revolutionist
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Milumbe Haimbe

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The Crypt of Blackness: or Assotto Saint with Gilles Deleuze
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Tavia Nyong’O

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Rise of the Astro Blacks
199
Greg Tate

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The Archivist’s Vault :: Door Of No Return
205
Kara Lynch

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An Afrofuturist Time Capsule – One Point in Space-Time in the Collective Consciousness of Black Speculation
211
M. Asli Dukan

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Organize Your Own Temporality: Notes on Self-Determined Temporalities and Radical Futurities
237
Rasheedah Phillips

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“I Feel Love”: Race, Gender, Technē, and the (Im)Proper Sonic Habitus
245
Kara Keeling

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Afrofuturism On My Mind: Imagining Black Lives in a Post-Obama World
251
Anna Everett

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Brother Kyot
281
Daniel Kojo Schrade

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Intervening into the Future Script: A Conversation about Fiction, Magic, and the Speculative Power of Images
287
Kiluanji Kia Henda and Nadine Siegert

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Dismantle Imperia
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Robyn Smith

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Textures of Time – Abstraction, Afronauts, and the Archive in the Artwork of Daniel Kojo Schrade
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Tobias Nagl

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There Are Storytellers Everywhere
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Raimi Gbadamosi

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Prophetika
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Abigail Deville

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The Secessionist Manifestos of Certain Received Wisdoms
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John Akomfrah and Kodwo Eshun

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They Sent You?
371
Jim Chuchu

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Alienation and Queer Discontent
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Henriette Gunkel

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FAR SPACE-WISE – Without Edges a Center Cannot Exist in Stasis
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Jamika Ajalon

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VI. Final Orbit
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Future
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Rasheedah Phillips

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Authors
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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

Audience(s) for this book

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

We Travel the Space Ways

Overview

About this book

Reviews

Supplementary Materials

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement

Black Astrophysics: A Homemade Field of Love

Lift Off… an Introduction

City of Mirage

Reach, Robot: AfroFuturist Technologies

Glitches Running Trains Out In Negrizonia, A Gynocidal Western

To Win the War, You Fought It Sideways: Kojo Laing’s Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars

Black Atlantis

The Palace of the Quilombos

The Sound of Afrofuturism

The Revolutionist

The Crypt of Blackness: or Assotto Saint with Gilles Deleuze

Rise of the Astro Blacks

The Archivist’s Vault :: Door Of No Return

An Afrofuturist Time Capsule – One Point in Space-Time in the Collective Consciousness of Black Speculation

Organize Your Own Temporality: Notes on Self-Determined Temporalities and Radical Futurities

“I Feel Love”: Race, Gender, Technē, and the (Im)Proper Sonic Habitus

Afrofuturism On My Mind: Imagining Black Lives in a Post-Obama World

Brother Kyot

Intervening into the Future Script: A Conversation about Fiction, Magic, and the Speculative Power of Images

Dismantle Imperia

Textures of Time – Abstraction, Afronauts, and the Archive in the Artwork of Daniel Kojo Schrade

There Are Storytellers Everywhere

Prophetika

The Secessionist Manifestos of Certain Received Wisdoms

They Sent You?

Alienation and Queer Discontent

FAR SPACE-WISE – Without Edges a Center Cannot Exist in Stasis

Future

Authors

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