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 creative and courageous book is the flowering of black imagination and exploration into alternatives to the catastrophic realities of present-day black life. It is part of a great tradition of theory and praxis, thought and action rooted in concrete struggles for black freedom and black joy! As America and much of the world moves toward neo-fascism, Afro-futurism becomes more timely and powerful!

• Forward: 25 Years in a 500 Year Long Song Sheree Renee Thomas Introduction: The Year of the Panther Reynaldo Anderson and Clinton Fluker Part 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. Morris Chapter Seven: African Futurist Themes and Fantasy in Modern