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2022, Activism, African Mythology, Afrofuturism, Black People, Black star Line, Black Women, Drama, Education, Empowerment, Fantasy, Feminism, Fiction, Folklore, Jamaica, Language, Literary, Literature, Louise Bennett, Magical Realism, Marcus Garvey, Marlon James, Miss Lou, Music, Nalo Hopkinson, Pantomime, Patois, Political, Radical, Reggae, Social Justice, Speculative Fiction, Theatre, UNIA
Jamaican Writers – Afrofuturism
Nalo Hopkinson Author of Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, Skin Folk, Falling in Love with Hominids Specializes in Speculative Fiction, Magical Realism, Folklore, Afro-Caribbean Culture, Feminism In this near future, post-apocalyptic Toronto, the wealthy live in the suburbs. In the inner city, government and social structures have disintegrated after a series of riots.…
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2022, Afrofuturism, Bob Marley, Chronixx, Dancehall, Disco, Dubstep, Experimental, Fashion, Futuristic, Grace Jones, Icon, Innovator, Jamaican, Lee Scratch Perry, Music, Pioneer, Pop, Reggae, Remix, Roots, Skank, Trap
Jamaican Musicians -Afrofuturism
Jamar McNaughton/Chronixx Known for a Reggae Revival. Uses digital instrument to experiment with reggae and dancehall – trap reggae/dancehall Positive thinking, Social Justice, Black Empowerment, Rastafarian themes in his music. Invested in his homeland and knowledge of African roots through Rastafari These creative giants have been able to reconstruct “Blackness” in the culture. According to…
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Afrofuturism and Food: An Interview with Educator/Food Blogger Dayna-Lee Stewart
By Kandice Thompson Conceptually, Afrofuturism easily sits in the theoretical realm and for my project I’m trying to find how Jamaicans have knowingly and unknowingly contributed to or been influenced by such radical schools of thought. Knowing this, I have to interrogate the factors that constitute a society. An essential component that is easily overlooked…
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2022, Academic, Afrofuturism, Afrofuturist, AI Art, Archive, Art, Artwork, Catalogu, Citations, Digital Media, Educational, Fasion, Food, Gallery, Icon, Interview, Jamaica, KandiceThompson, Links, Literature, Music, National, Resources, Science, soundCloud, Survey, technology, Vision 2030, Voice Tag, Voices, VoxPop, Writers
An Afrofuturist’s Archive
Final Project Directory A Catalogue of Jamaica in the Afrofuturistic Space. What is Afrofuturism? The term Afrofuturism was coined by American cultural critic Mark Dery in his 1994 essay “Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate and Tricia Rose. Initially used to address the intersection of African American themes and “technoculture”…
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Grace Jones: On The Cutting Edge
By Kandice Thompson Black Panther was many of our first entries into the world of Afrofuturism. This one film has done wonders with its reach, opening up the masses to ideas of a futuristic black society, but there is so much more. However, it seems as if most of the popular contributions have been done…
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Spurned
By Kandice Thompson That night in the backseat of your car, I pushed my head in between the front seats as if that would make you hear me. You screamed at us, me mostly, in the same language you spurned. My throat worked painfully as I swallowed dry, working up the nerve but conscious of…
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My Introduction to the Digital Humanities. Review of “Laurie Taylor and Cultivating Caribbean Knowledge”.
Greetings Cyber Sapiens My name is Kandice Thompson. I am a Literatures in English major, Film Studies minor at the University of the West Indies. On this day, in the year of our Lord 2022 this course, Creative Non-Fiction and Digital Media, felt like a necessity for a humanities student. In this techno-social era, navigating…
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Queen Elizabeth she died last night…
by Kandice Thompson Queen Elizabeth II of England died. The world is shaken. I am a rock in the sea, jutting out above the crashing waves…unmoved. As the rock would be wet from the splashing of turbulent waters, I too am not unaffected, just not moved. Not moved to tears, sorrow, or any particularly passionate…
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Brainstorming: Afrofuturism and Language
By Kandice Thompson How Do We Reconstruct Blackness? Afrofuturism’s fluid ideology is a space where the cultural can meet digital as our imaginings of the future are inherently tied to the development of technology. Maybe we imagine a societal collapse heralded by such technology and “progression”. Will we be going back – Sankofa anyone? We…
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