Science Fiction and the Human Question
Avatar. The Avengers. Iron Man 3. Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The Dark Knight Rises. These are five of the top ten all-time highest grossing movies. Their (arguable) inclusion in the Science Fiction canon begs a question of the genre: is it just the spectacle that we shell out to witness, or is there some more primitive itch that these kinds of events scratch? This blog is dedicated to figuring out how it is that Science Fiction addresses the problem of defining "human."
Monday, November 10, 2014
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
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
Friday, September 12, 2014
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Selections from Gulliver’s Travels
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4ktaHQOHjZ_aTgxRkpieGwxcnc/edit?usp=sharing
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