Black Futures

if there’s one thing I hope you take away from reading this book, it is that you will commit to keeping your critical antennae tuned in to the nightmarish fantasies of post-human proselytizers, among them many Silicon Valley elite and superintelligentsia, who believe the best thing they can do for humanity is “get filthy rich, for charity’s sake.”

In the film’s poignant juxtapositions, we witness a clash of imaginations—a governing white imagination captivated by the utopian possibilities of space travel, and a Black social imagination demanding attention to the dystopias right under our noses.

Afrofuturism is typically defined as a Black cultural aesthetic that explores the intersections of the African diaspora and technology––or, in other words, a form of Black science fiction.

Black writer and performer Neema Githere writes about what she calls “ Afropresentism ,” which she defines as a “teaching genre” that “channels your ancestry thr