3/29/2024 0 Comments Delaney the star pit![]() Having worked most prominently in the field of science fiction, and secondarily in memoir, dance, screenwriting and criticism, Afrofuturism cannot – and perhaps should not – envelope the whole of his work. “To me,” he said, “it seemed artificial and not very relevant for science fiction.” But, of course, the polymath has quite the proclivity for genre-infidelity. Delany about how his perch atop the science fiction lit section came prepackaged with the Afrofuturist designation, he was truly nonplussed, reminding us that his most realized identity is that of writer. Teetering between its popular manifestations and the genuine practice of contemplating a future where black people will sustain, Afrofuturism has grown so big it can hardly escape itself. But with its history of semiotics patterned by black artists, and in many cases defined, at least anthropologically, by the white hipster class studying them, Afrofuturism has lived a life in ideological flux. ![]() Flight – away from the hold of the ship, from the whip and the soil, from the prison cell, auction block and constraints of Western time – is inherent to the feeling of elsewhere conceived by Afrofuturists the world over. ![]() As a singular catalog of black cognition, Afrofuturism has always couched escapism as a basic fundament. ![]()
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