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Juxtaposing the world-building of afrofuturism and the world-negating of afropessimism to show how both movements have offered us critical resources of hope.
Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events, both a threat and promise for the future. Black Apocalypse is an introduction to the past and present…
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I’ve never connected with a book this much as I did with Black Apocalypse. It astounds me how passionately and impactfully Tavia Nyong’o clutches Franz Kafka’s axe that shattered the frozen sea within me as I read this nonfiction about articulating ‘blackness in an antiblack world’. At 87 pages, I marvelled at how this three-chaptered book sweeps through alienation, cognitive estrangement, decolonisation and black tragic vision—a disciplined practice for imagining alternate futures. It also gazes at the animated role of dystopian fiction in the digital space, in a quest to redefine our relationship with the cosmos. This book is a…
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