Black Speculative Arts Movement

Reynaldo Anderson is associate professor of communications and chair of the Humanities Department at Harris-Stowe State University.Clinton R. Fluker is assistant director of engagement and scholarship at the Atlanta University Center.

This collection contributes to Afrofuturism studies by focusing on the Black creative experience. Contributors analyze philosophies of utopia, art, music, and histories of visual resistance, and they critique noted works by authors and artists like Octavia Butler, Ralph Ellison, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Janelle Monae, and Colson Whitehead.

Forward: 25 Years in a 500 Year Long SongSheree Renee ThomasIntroduction: The Year of the PantherReynaldo Anderson and Clinton FlukerPart I: Theory and Extra-Planetary ReasonChapter One: At the End of "Dasein": An Afro-German Voyage into the FutureNatasha A. KellyChapter Two: Avant-Gardes, Afrofuturism, and Philosophical Readings of RhythmIain CampbellChapter Three: Working on the Other Side of Time: An Interview with Rasheedah PhillipsReynaldo AndersonChapter Four: We Speak, We Make, We Tinker: Afrofuturism as Applied Digital HumanitiesToniesha L. TaylorChapter Five: Forms of Future/Past: Black Kirby Afrofuturism and the Visual Technologies of ResistanceJohn Jennings and Clinton R. FlukerPart II: Coding Utopia and DystopiaChapter Six: "Everything is real. It's just not as you see it": Imagination, Utopia, and Afrofuturist Feminism in Octavia E. Butler's "The Book of Martha"Susana M. MorrisChapter Seven: African Futurist Themes and Fantasy in Modern African Speculative FictionDike OkoroChapter Eight: B[l]ack to the Future: Futurism and Blackness in Zone OneSouleymane BaChapter Nine: Dragons, Vescells, and Writing Afro-Latino Futures: An Interview with Enrique CarrionStacey RobinsonChapter Ten: "The Electric Impulse:" The Legba Circuit in Ralph Ellison's Invisible ManSherese FrancisPart III: Blackness and Planetary PraxisChapter Eleven: Ashes to Ashes: The Second Life of Kiluanji Kia Henda's Afrofuturist CritiqueDariel CobbChapter Twelve: Metropolis 2.0: Janelle Monáe's Recycling of Fritz LangErik SteinskogChapter Thirteen: Designing Love: Reimagining Technology and IntimacyEbony A. UtleyChapter Fourteen: Performing Black Imagination: The Critical Embodiment of TransfuturismAmber JohnsonChapter Fifteen: Fabulous Camps of the Black Fantastic: Sylvester James, Queer Afrofuturism, and Black Vernacular Becomingstobias c. van Veen and Reynaldo AndersonPart IV: Images on the Other Side of TimeChapter Sixteen: Funky Images on the Other Side of Time: Various ArtistsWriply Marie Bennet, Tim Fielder, John Jennings, Jessi Jumanji, Amber Johnson, Sheeba Maya, Stacey Robinson, and Quentin VerCetty