Tag: afrofuturism

• {EIC Reading Recommendation} Afrofuturists: Recurrence Plot (and Other Time Travel Tales) by Rasheedah Phillips

  

  The future is now. So, there’s no better time to delve into afrofuturist writing and literary explorations. “Afrofuturism is not only a subgenre of science fiction. It is a larger aesthetic mode that encompasses a diverse range of artists working in different genres and media who are united by their shared interest in projecting black…

  Je Writer

  March 22, 2020

  Afrofuturists, Books

  afrofuturism, Rasheedah Phillips, TERSE Journal

• “What the Hell is Hauntology?”: A Reading List for 2019’s Theme by M. Perle Tahat

  2019’s theme for TERSE. is hauntology: nostalgia for lost futures. As our columnist Jordannah Elizabeth bluntly asked, “what the hell is ‘hauntology’?” Hauntology, as we’d like to explore it, is a way to describe a phenomenon related to resonances of traumatic events; a coming to terms with “what’s been done” in the present based on…

  mauve

  April 15, 2019

  permanent fugue

  2019, afrofuturism, call for artists, call for papers, call for submissions, Charles E. Jones, countermemory, Derrida, digital humanities, futures, hauntology, intergenerational trauma, Invisible Universe, J.A. Mbembe, Kodwo Eshun, literary journal, M. Asli Dukan, Mark Fisher, memory, metaphysics, nostalgia, playing in the dark, R.F. Kuang, Reynaldo Anderson, theme, Toni Morrison, worlding, Ytasha Womack