Full Description
Critical Black Futures imagines worlds, afrofutures, cities, bodies, art and eras that are simultaneously distant, parallel, present, counter, and perpetually materializing. From an exploration of W. E. B. Du Bois' own afrofuturistic short stories, to trans* super fluid blackness, this volume challenges readers—community leaders, academics, communities, and creatives—to push further into surreal imaginations. Beyond what some might question as the absurd, this book is presented as a speculative space that looks deeply into the foundations of human belief. Diving deep into this notional rabbit hole, each contributor offers a thorough excursion into the imagination to discover 'what was', while also providing tools to push further into the 'not yet'.
Contents
1.Introduction.- 2. The Black Futures of W. E. B. Du Bois.-3. A Black Tetratic Future: Blackness and the Age of Hyper-Exponentiation (Hyper-4).- 4.Towards an Afro-Futuristic Feminist Manifesto.- 5. Writing on Dance, Artistic Reframing of Unimagined Bodies.- 6. A Disruptive Visual Respite: Stacey Robinson.- 7. Black Radical Nationalist Theory and Afrofuturism 2.0.-8. Afrofuturism and Black Futurism: Some Ontological and Semantic Considerations.- 9. Super Fluid / Super Black: Translations and Teachings in Transembodied Metaphysics.- 10. Race, Economics, and the Future of Blackness.- 11. Newhampton: A Future Forward(ified) Black City in the United States.
