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

Published by transcript Verlag 2019

We Travel the Space Ways

Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions

Edited by: Henriette Gunkel and kara lynch

Volume 8 in the series Post_koloniale Medienwissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839446010

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Henriette Gunkel (PhD) is lecturer at the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work focusses on the politics of time from a decolonizing, queer-feminist perspective. She is working on a monograph on Alien Time that focusses on Africanist science-fictional interventions. She is the author of The Cultural Politics of Female Sexuality in South Africa (Routledge, 2010) and co-editor of What Can a Body Do? (Campus, 2012), Undutiful Daughters. New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice (Palgrave McMillan, 2012), and Futures & Fictions (Repeater, 2017), which was nominated for the 2018 International Center of Photography's Infinity Award in the Critical Writing and Research category.
kara lynch (MFA) is a time-based artist living in the Bronx, NY who earns a living as an Associate Professor of Video and Critical Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Ambivalent towards hyper-visual culture, she is curious about duration, embodiment, and aural experience; and through low-fi, collective practice and social intervention lynch explores aesthetic/political relationships between time + space. Her work is vigilantly raced, classed, and gendered - Black, queer and feminist. Major projects include: `Black Russians' - a feature documentary video (2001), `The Outing' - a video travelogue (1999-2004), `Mouhawala Oula' - a gender-bending trio performance for oriental dance, live video, and saxophone (2009). The current project 'INVISIBLE', an episodic, speculative, multi-site video/audio installation - excavates the terror and resilient beauty of Black experience.

Reviews

»Für die Forschung zum Afrofuturismus stellt der Band ein repräsentatives und in der Zukunft sicher unerlässliches Referenzwerk dar.«
Mark Schmitt, MEDIENwissenschaft, 4 (2020)

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

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 452
Keywords: African Science Fiction; Time; Art; Diaspora; Postcolonialism; Gender; Gender Studies; African Art; Africa; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: July 27, 2019
ISBN: 9783839446010