• Practical Criticism No. 64: What is Afrofuturism?

  • Apr 11 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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Practical Criticism No. 64: What is Afrofuturism?

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  • In episode 64 of the Podcast for Social Research's Practical Criticism series, live-recorded at Montez Press Radio's Canal street studio, Rebecca Ariel Porte and Ajay Singh Chaudhary play Sun Ra, Deltron 3030, Janaelle Monae, and Solange for guest Kazembe Balagun—all prompts to the question, what is Afrofuturism? A special co-production with Montez Press and Carnegie Hall, episode 64 explores the Afro diaspora, self-naming as self-determination, revolutionary aesthetics, Afrofuturism's "total" artistry, Afrofuturism vs. Italian Futurism and "Jeff Bezos" futurism, Blackness as a mass utopian political project, Sun Ra's influence on everything from MC5 to contemporary jazz and cinema, the reactionary futurism of the Disney/Marvel Black Panther, and whether Afrofuturism is a dated style, alive in the present, or a continuous echo of the future.

    Originally published on April 1, 2022

                   
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