The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture, by Carl Freedman. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2002.

Rieder, John

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“…Arguably, Afrofuturism is utopian rather than dystopian in impulse (see Zamalin 2019, 6-18;Brock 2020, 11) "popular culture depictions of the future" as well as from the history of science (Womack 2013, 6-7) -and hence, arguably, from 'the future of humanity' discourses as we also find them at work in hegemonic astrofuturism (see Ganser 2019, 39). Afrofuturism thus also suggests a revision of dominant models of linear histories of progress and modernity, as they hinge on Eurocentric humanist epistemes, mythologies, and narratives; as many Afrofuturist critiques quip, the traumatic experience of physical abduction by alien ships, for the descendants of the Atlantic slave trade, is in the past rather than in an imaginary intergalactic future (see, e.g., Bould 2007, Nelson 2000, Rieder 2008).…”

Section: Moving Towards An Afrofuturist Astropelago: Theoretical Cons...mentioning

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Entangled Future Im/mobilities

2024

Vernetzen - Bewegen - Verorten. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven

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How are im/mobilities articulated, imagined and practiced in relation to multiple futures? A critical examination of im/mobilities raises questions as to how power relations and crisis-driven futures enable, inhibit or prevent mobility, what meanings are culturally constructed around im/mobilities and how they are experienced. The contributors to this volume look at entangled future mobilities and immobilities using humanities and social science approaches in diverse examples: Afrofuturist poetry, de-extinction projects, dystopian novels, a Uruguayan planned relocation program, lives of rural Zambian women, climate adaptation in Morocco and Austrian financial literacy policy.

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Section: Moving Towards An Afrofuturist Astropelago: Theoretical Cons...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Entangled Future Im/mobilities

2024

Vernetzen - Bewegen - Verorten. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven

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“…Patricia suggests, for example, that one of the main roles of science fiction is to 'experiment with empire', providing both a valve to vent imperialist fantasies while also providing pleasure from imagining it in detail. 27…”

Section: Day 4 Science Fictionmentioning

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Time is out of Joint: Digital Domesticity and Magical Realism

Hernán¹,

Ramirez-Figueroa

2021

Journal of Architectural Education

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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. 1Architecture has often looked at science fiction to understand the way that new technologies have an effect on the buildings we create. Here we advocate for a broadening of the canon suggesting that there are other traditions and forms of speculative fiction that destabilizes the canon through which we imagine the future of buildings. Inspired by the recent coinage of "auto-theory" and the work of Feminist writers such as Donna Haraway, Eula Biss, Valeria Luiselli, and Selva Almada we write this essay in the form of a semi-fictional diary spanning six non-consecutive days during the COVID-19 pandemic. 2 As two Latin-American writers operating in English speaking academia, we draw on our own positionality to think through the consequences that the canon of speculative fiction has on our ability, as designers, to imagine. The paper is driven by the narrative of teaching "online" and turning our home into a 'smart' one while teaching design studios on speculative futures. Interspersed in the narrative are the conversations we had with student during this period and our collective readings of three works of speculative fiction -one proto-science fiction and two Latin American -which we use to try and make sense of our new forms of [technified] domesticity.

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“…There is the cabaret sequence where the robot version of Maria titillates the hungry male onlookers with her sexualised antics, while black slaves hold up the seashell-like box she comes out of. Science fiction is about fantasies, after all, and white male fantasies more often than not (Rieder 2008) The second point is that when the Orient makes its way into Western literature and popular art, it is the West that is on the defensive half the time.…”

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Science Fiction by, about, and for Arabs: Case Studies in De-Orientalising the Western Imagination

Aysha¹

2020

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Orientalism is a much maligned concept. While geared to the service of the Western colonial sense of superiority, Orientalism is, at base, a loose set of symbols and motifs that is more geared towards an introspective critique of the West itself. It represents certain internal antagonisms and Western anxieties that emerge in confrontations with the East over gender and sexuality. This becomes evident when it comes to Western science fiction (written and filmed) among other popular genres and specifically when applied to Arabs and Muslims (the “classical” East). Hitherto, most literature on the Orientalism evident in Western SF has focused on the Far East, via Techno-Orientalism and Cyber-Punk. The growing strength of Arab and Muslim SF, however, can counter these Orientalist tendencies in the genre; taking Egyptian SF as a test case. Western SF, moreover, can set its own house in order in the meantime, since SF allows for symbolic substitutes to existential threats traditionally posed by the East in the Western imagination.

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The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture, by Carl Freedman. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2002.

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Entangled Future Im/mobilities

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Time is out of Joint: Digital Domesticity and Magical Realism

Science Fiction by, about, and for Arabs: Case Studies in De-Orientalising the Western Imagination

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