Tuesday, November 4, 2014

William Gibson: "The Gernsback Continuum"

http://web.archive.org/web/20071020151042/http://americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1988/1/1988_1_34_print.shtml

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Afrofuturism Resources

OVERVIEW:

Mark Dery's Black to the Future:
http://thenewblack5324.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/mark-dery-black-to-the-future.pdf
An overview from The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2014/jan/07/afrofuturism-where-space-pyramids-and-politics-collide
From Ytasha Womack, author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy
http://bitchmagazine.org/post/interview-with-ytasha-womack-on-afrofuturism-and-the-world-of-black-sci-fi-and-fantasy

https://aconerlycoleman.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/on-afro-futurism-or-im-a-black-woman-from-the-future/

MUSIC:

Sun Ra:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/15/sun-ra-jazz-interstellar-voyager
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSNvdLpLx-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qjiQwD7VCI

George Clinton (Parliament/Funkadelic):
http://thequietus.com/articles/16045-george-clinton-interview-parliament-funkadelic
http://artery.wbur.org/2014/03/02/george-clinton-afrofuturism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiqmEibSY0I
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ll9zy0/key-and-peele-funky-nonsense

A pride of my hometown, electro pioneer Drexciya's Black Atlantis concept chronicles the survival of murdered African captives who establish a civilization under the waves of the Middle Passage.
http://www.globaldarkness.com/articles/drexciya.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imKh_TKqHt4

Flying Lotus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXD0vv-ds8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rmFTc51Zk0

Janelle Monae:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/aug/26/janelle-monae-sister-another-planet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq74HPAm_wE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHgbzNHVg0c
http://thequietus.com/articles/04889-janelle-mon-e-the-archandroid-afrofuturism

IMAGE:

http://basquiat.com/
https://rootsandwires.wordpress.com/tag/basquiat/
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoban-basquiat.html