by admin | Dec 18, 2006 | Afrofuturism |
Ok. I was checking out an interview with Minister Faust. Faust, wrote one of the most original pieces of science fiction that I’d read in the past few years in The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad, and given that he’s got a new book coming...
by admin | Nov 26, 2006 | Afrofuturism, Black People Mythology, Black Power, Cash Rules Everything Around Me
There’s an interesting discussion with two parts over at P6 about cooperative economics. The belief that black businesses will somehow lift black people from our place on the bottom rungs is driven by a mythical belief in the power of capitalism. If trickle-down...
by admin | Oct 20, 2006 | Afrofuturism |
You know what? I was reading about my Tigers (yeah, after 19 years I’m claiming them again) and got this instead. Looks like an invisibility cloak will soon be reality. First there will be military applications. Then police and surveillance applications....
by admin | Aug 27, 2006 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Black Power, Neoliberalism |
What if you brought together over 100 of the world’s most innovative thinkers at one roundtable…and then asked them (simultaneously) to answer 100 questions culled from thousands submitted from all over the world? What if the responses were videotaped and...
by admin | Aug 2, 2006 | Afrofuturism, Urban Politics |
The hardest thing for me to do on any given day is clear the cobwebs out of my head so I can start writing. This is what I’m trying to do now…get the juices flowing. As a result this is going to ramble a bit. Yesterday, long after the cobwebs had cleared I...
by admin | Jun 24, 2006 | Afrofuturism |
I read Octavia Butler’s last book, Fledgling. I’ve talked about what Butler meant to me as an Afrofuturist. On one level Fledgling is a very simple book, attempting to answer a series of very simple questions. Reading it I can see the gears turning in...
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