Critical Black Futures: Speculative Theories and Explorations

ISBN-13: 9789811578823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 242 str.

Philip Butler

Spis treści

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 Afrofuturist Feminist Manifesto 

5 Writings on Dance: Artistic Reframing for Celestial Black

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

O autorze

Philip Butler is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Posthuman Artificial Intelligence Systems at Iliff School of Theology. He is the founder of the Seekr Project, a distinctly Black conversational artificial intelligence with mental health capacities. His work primarily focuses on the intersection of neuroscience, technology, spirituality and race. He is the author of Black Transhuman Liberation Theology: Spirituality and Technology (2019).

Blurb

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’.