Black sci-fi writers were shut out of their genre in the 20th century so they created their own vision of the future. That sentiment spread to music and film and today it’s so engrained in pop culture it doesn't need its own label.
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I want to issue a sea on this- one- ok
This is one of those that is,
So broad and dense
an awesome that, like I
almost feel bad doing
as you know,
refurbished minute episode of eid, guest, yeah,
as ever futures them is so vast. It's like it
first sometimes these do not feel like will.
explain what it is and then just like list a bunch of us some people yeah, you know
but this
this illness.
Of oliver episodes. This one is meant to whet the appetite
more than most, I think as an end
induction to it.
the future is that you go check out lots and lots of
That's yourself cause. That's all I've been doing yeah
It should title it an,
tourism, one or one.
maybe not even what's what's below one was in the ninety nine
Ok, maybe right now I can remember there is actually a number for insight, remedial college courses that you have to take to catch up,
man I can remember, but what we
Look it up and maybe that'll be now
because then we will get email saying. How could you not mention so, and so
How could you not mention so and sows other thing?
even though you mention them right
just one of the things which is too much, but I'm hopefully this others introduce people to this idea in this concept of this cultural
Instead, again, philosophy yeah
This is definitely one of those episodes that we should try to define what we're talking about, first, which, by the way we took guff for not telling people in depth.
who milly finelli were,
I was so taken aback by that, like what do you do
even occur to me that we needed to like
go further into defining.
we vanilla from the outset. I know I thought even our younger listeners. I thought that was such a big cultural thing that you know like I know about things before I was born nope,
note that, while this is not merely vanilla, this is what we're talking about after a future them in
our futures and, like you said, it's a huge big,
that has a lot of different definitions, but probably the
the most distinct way I can define it in this means finding it is that it is the
visions of the future.
fantasy world were alternate realities which all funded fall under the umbrella of speculative fiction. Speculative literature yeah threw up,
african american lens right. Yeah
I will just drill down a little bit and say that incorporates
obviously literature, but music and dance- and
every kind of art you can think of
movies. Obviously, in television
We kind of any thing that has
cool sort of sci fi bent
through the lens of african americans and I will get it.
More definitions gives you know it's one of the things that people can really pick apart as far as what counts
and what does it and then after its around for a while. I should we even becoming at this now, and should I call at this and what will get and all that, but suffice it to say that, like all of us,
of is just really cool and awesome and serves
It has a title because it is serving a people that
it has been under served when it comes to science fiction,
yeah, so it's kind of evolved in parallel as its own thing, but it
grew out of originally science fiction. Writing, so one must,
people think of afrofuturism, they think of sci fi novels, essentially
but once you start to look into ever features in answer to understand what it is you see it pop
yup all over the place like it was right in plain sight for me, and I never really realised what I was looking at night.
Taking. All of it is like individual. Like are too
take things rather than a part of a collective, so it's ours too.
There is one
giant movement that it's a part of
like. I said it does
finally have its roots in science fiction, which is pretty
appropriate, because, as far as any literary genre goes science fiction,
has explored the theme
the rise in racism and other Nilsen alien. This
more than any other, I would say.
Yeah, and I have a little stat sort of drive home. My underserved point
and this was from twenty sixteen and walk so it's it's a little dated and things are getting better since then for
were but per cent
time. Eight percent of the top grossing cipher films of all time
black protagonists when forward
Ten of those were well smith,
wow, so
The from will myth four percent of movies
of course, if you look at you know that
big to star trek in star wars,
star wars, gonna live better now, but the original trilogy had one black character, of course, Lando
And then start tracked, which I know nothing about, and I'm sure things have changed since then as well:
the time I think only head in all of the star trek properties had known it said, look
Then twelve black
mergers and I'm not sure
that means
well you didn't say eleven,
unless one was on the fence. I have an idea, I don't know yeah. That is an odd way to put it for sure. I a tricky could explain to them.
I am speaking of every time I reader le research about star trek roads is comes up. I have to go
watch that william shatner siren at live appearance from the news. Yet get a library speaking at a star trek convention, it's just priceless every single time, if you've never seen that just look up William shatner star trek,
I mentioned Saturday night live and you won't be disappointed.
for a younger listeners. William Shatner is an actor
aid from before you were born and acting is where
you ve performed under your on screen any screen the dry, so
the eight percent is actually progress compared to the early twentieth century. The hum and most people don't
think that there were any blacks. I writers, if you think about that kind of thing, at all, until the sixties, really, when a guy named samuel, Delaney came long he's off,
because it is the first black sigh writer,
He made a huge splash in the sixties kind of
almost single handedly taking the genre sigh five out of the realm of martians.
invading an earth outpost right to. Let's explorer sucks
irritation, gender fluidity race.
In really like high handed manner and was producing books that were over eight hundred,
It is long in some cases.
but he really move things along. So not only was he one of the first african
american sigh fi writers. He was one of the first
takes. I find too much deeper directions. Gear friction
sure, but he's also a guy that when you see interviews with them- and I watched quite a few supercool guy but he's one of the first ones to say no, no, no! Well! I had people before me right it just it
never became hugely popular.
For obvious reasons, but not those again, eighteen, fifty seven, nay, martin Delaney, who is a kind of it
echo all trades. He was a doctor and a journalist and an author and abolitionist he wrote a book, a novel called blake or
Lots of a
which was as a lot of these are alternate histories. That kind of supposed like
but with life be like she had either slavery not happened, or
slavery, happened in a different way or what, if
you know the white people were enslaved in black people.
were on top and is just sort of looking it kind of
a lot of things through the lens of the diaspora,
and you know, I'm not into cypher
books I never have. But, alas,
this stuff. It made me want to read sigh for the first time just discuss it sounds cool cause. I love alternate history yet for sure
That's definitely part of speculative fiction, alternate history in general,
but yeah, Martineau amy's bleaker, the huts of amerika was written in eighteen, fifty seven and it wasn't until I mean I think, the another couple
kids things would come out sporadically, but there is a guy named edward johnson who wrote
light ahead for the negro
nineteen o one and he imagined a black man who
was transported to a socialist version in the united states in two thousand six were things were much much better so that
these ideas. These alternate histories are kind of coming out. Little by little,
but they are very, very clearly under them.
What you would call now speculative fiction umbrella and they
written by african americans much much earlier.
Then samuel Delaney long before he was even born. This sub was happening. It
it was happening like almost in a vacuum like,
a black author or a black leader would have agreed
idea to get his point across by writing an alternate history and that
there wasn't like a genre. There wasn't a movement or anything like that year.
and do any also points out that the like that
Pulp rags a lot of those were written anonymously and it. China was an area of literature where
full of color women, who you know couldn't get published published, is readily at the time the
yeah right under these pseudonyms and get
stories out in these
pop magazine, articles and stuff and stories and
but you know who knows how many you know that
americans writing this kind of stuff yet because you did the whole thing through the mail and apparently at the time you were more likely than not to be using a pseudonym for that stuff, because that was just like keeping the
electricity on I'm kind of writing. It only mean dear
So that's it. That's a really great point, but the
I think the underlying thing here is the reason that there weren't more black.
Authors of sigh. Five in part was because it was
just riding in general literature in general. There is like a general pushed to keep african a mirror.
It's out of things like that as much as possible and then is, as
african americans became more more integrated into american society. The thing that kept africa
americans out of sight, fi writing
actually came down to one guy.
Who was named John w campbell junior and its
slightly hyperbolic to say he was the glass ceiling that that the gatekeeper that,
sigh fi white for decades.
He was definitely one of the one of the gatekeepers. He was
editor of I think back then it was called astounding science fiction. It went by a bunch of other names, and now it's around is analogue science fiction. In fact, yet in fact
I say that with a comma, but in fact it's a period actually period
but he was the editor and, like you said he was a guy that
You know he wrote a bunch of essays in the nineteen sixties that supported
segregation at one point: he held slavery, a useful educational system and because,
as I can that were gatekeepers these
stories didn't get through, and people like Delaney, and
I take a butler who were going to talk about a lot more.
She talked about being in school and even her teacher saying things like you know:
unless it's like really necessary for the planet,
You shouldn't have a black protagonist unless it's like for a reason or
you know if you're gonna talk about race
in a way you know in science fiction, maybe might make some extra terrestrial instead of black disorder,
like a metaphor, because
the two heavy for people to do. You know to really take right.
take a butler wrote a really great essay. Nineteen eighty called the lost races of science fiction and she
look on that their excuse for why there wasn't more black people in science fiction works.
and she's she's, your it on star wars as an example. The first one answer
The war ok planet! Why?
corruption. Ok, kidnapping, ok,
the sight of a minority person too heavy to real tissues
now they like there's plenty of real world stuff that you you can consider pretty horrible.
There is just fine in science fiction, but racist too distracting, and that was like.
the kind of the drum that was beaten by guys, like John w Campbell and the reason why they were so powerful was because
the time if you wanted to get your novel published. Basically the mole,
direct route was to have it. Syria lies first in one of those magazines that guys like join dubuque, campbell edited gear and then, if you keep black off,
there's outer blacks. I try,
who also large
Keep black readers out of as I too, and just by private,
People like Samuel Delaney from getting his his story. Cereal eyes, black
safe, I writers, were- were basically kept out in his.
genetic who won
best? You writer, of two thousand nineteen for science fiction. Writing.
which were to think it was actually maybe that same award from analogue science fiction in fact
She said that sudan title four big really. Is she so that John w Campbell had kept science fiction? Stale, sterile male white
the salting of,
imperial aspirations, colonialism settlement industrialism and she was basically just.
I mean we don't worry. I can a harp on this. The whole episode, but there was a huge block in this-
particular genre, and it was just a handful of people who everybody else went along with. It seems like for sure I think, that's a great initial fifteen minute overview
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Oh africa, afro future ism- it's kind of hard to say
we sometimes it was coined by white writer, name, mark dairy and early nineties. Ninety ninety three and a peace called black to the future, and-
in that pc interviewed a few writers Delaney
these greater name, gregory tapes and
patricia rose, whose a sociologist, and
basically was like the whole point of the essay was. Why
are there so few working
novelist african american novelist working in this honour. What happened to get us here? Why aren't there more now, and what can we do about it to change this in the future
and any others like especially like science fiction, seems especially suited for
people of color, because- and this is a great
he said in a very real sense there,
the descendants of alien abductees and like
you think of it like that,
makes a lot of sense that sigh firewood canopy. You know something that really fits yeah and he was
It turned out to be a great fit for africa.
arrogance I fire writers, but still at the time there were basically for that. He could think of ink
putting samuel Delaney in your butler
then also a guy named Steve Barnes who's written basically
everything that has anything to do with science fiction,
and then another fantasy authoring, Charles Saunders in those,
Basically, it misses the mid nineties that this guy was writing this. I say in doing these interviews
but he hid it right on the head that it is a really great
this spring springboard for for black writers, the kind of explore the past and the future
but he defined. It is a speculative fiction that treats african american themes and addresses african,
american concerns in the context of twentyth century techno culture and basically.
he took what was already happening in firmly labelled it and put a lot of constraints on it when he coin the term ever a future ism and then defined it like that
yeah and that's where there is some, I guess
eight over whether or not it should be strictly limited through the lens of african americans and the diaspora or just
black culture world wide as a whole, and you know it
I think at the end will talk about some of the some other more inclusive names. They kind of income
that's all. You know what kind of world wide black culture, but
there are people that kind of
on both sides of the fence in
I mean I guess for me, you know I just I just think it's all great, so nit picking about
you know the exact definition is not for me, but,
We had to pointed out that did it out there and there is a debate. Yet one of the big things is whether it specifically african american
because there's a lot more,
communities out there than just african americans. Third one
many you ve got the entire continent of africa and all of its various groups. You ve got the diaspora, like you said african american,
the sentence or african descendants living in your
the nature and all around the world. Then there's even like some types is well like that,
african american diaspora is made
but people whose answer
There's were enslaved in america and then once they were free moved out of american that mexico, canada, wherever
so that there is a lot of different groups and what mark dairy did
situated exclusively in the realm of african americans. That's a big! That's a big point of debate. Still today
but the thing womack points out in that book, which.
You know is very easy for, like a middle age. White guide overlook is the fact that these efforts
the future is. The aims, are a way of
you talked about a method of self liberation, self healing so
you know to imagine a future for europe,
is a hopeful thing, so
if you're in a hostile world,
It's probably very easy to have a very bleak depiction of the future of your people
and these stories like
their shirts science fiction and in his you know, science fiction is always a sort of
Not light is actually very heavy. Lotta cases been, maybe
not to be taken seriously by by some people, but you know
I don't think it's like that. I think the egg
offer very heavy commentaries and it can offer hope to people that, like
If we can write about ourselves in the future, then,
We can imagine ourselves like thriving in the future yeah. Similarly, it's a way for african americans and people of african descent. In general, to stake a claim of the future
right, because if you think about the future- and I think I'm mark dairy made the point like-
if you look at tomorrow, land
at disneyworld and disneyland. It's super light
The future and generals just wait. It's like a projection of current times and
for future ism says no there's a different way of looking at it too, and that this was
the one they kind of trigger them.
Understanding. For me, the distinct
between after a future ism and just
any other kind of
say sigh fi that feature
like a black character,
is that you're? Not just taking like
african, american and making him
them an astronaut
the structure of the current imagined future, which again is super white
bases of our future. Ism is completely re, imagining the future,
completely re. Imagining the passed through
a black lance kind of like, if you, if black people
were in charge of
but producing the future. This is a vision of what it could be. Like kind of thing you, rather than just following along the current trajectory that we ve been on.
This time in america, which is a super white trajectory
includes other people, but the basis of everything. The structure of everything is through the white lines. This is taking it through a black lanes and its I saw it.
De familiarizing, what we,
Think of is like the future. Now I like that term, I thought so I thought you would yeah.
Since there's one guy who we have to mention. Who is you know,
complicated goddess haseman leeson, and that is one of the first sort of twentyth century f,
the future of writers, who is george schuyler,
He wrote a generally for black publications, but
he wrote all these books, he wrote novels and essays and short stories and things
sometimes or pulp stories- and they were exam-
what we ve been talking about. There was one in the thirties
Syria lies pulp stories about.
We'll black uprising
its white colonialism, buddy
these hundred pseudonyms, the sooner nam samuel I brooks, and
schuyler himself in.
I rl, I would
right essays
kind of slamming store
is that he wrote as brooks. He wrote that he said it was hokum and hacking.
In the purest vain and was a very conservative guy in Israel life unlike backed Joseph Mccarthy's camp,
and against the kind
this then he was sort
opponent of the civil rights movement in history,
men are needed, dive into the sky little more and see that some serious complication right there. You know for sure he is, but he wrote that
book black, no more. Where you you could visit a machine pay, fifty dollars and after three a three day process be turned from black to white in it
clearly a ban society in civilization, both in the wake me in the end, the black community, and he wrote that is
words skyler the conservative guy, but he's
is considered one of the first progenitors of the I
for a future them in the twentieth century.
And then simultaneously chuck as guy
like schuyler, writing and samuel? I brooks
The same guy
writing. After a few tourism, a meal
the girl form of after a few tourism is kind of developing too. And if you look back in the past, it was just a few people popping.
in doing something they eventually a couple. Decades later you could say off
fall into the same general category
yeah. I mean these rob sort of in the cases of schuyler and that the gas
to talk about is all these are like retroactive titles right, because there
the term wasn't around back then, but you can't talk about after a future ism without talking about george
in sun raw on the
is inside and spent the basics,
all day, listening to a sunrise, playlist
and it is, you- know
I had to be in the mood for this kind of jazz. It is it's tough, very free form,
it's very odd in
it's not like you know this very melodic super listen, a bull can afford.
its challenging music and sunrise was a really interesting guy. He was born in Birmingham and nineteen fourteen as herman blount and
he moved to Chicago in the forties and played a little more traditional, tight jazz, but in the sixties,
went to new york and things
really he really freed himself up of what the
de of jazz or just composed muse.
It could be used in out there. The cat, then all the right ways for sure
He made more than a hundred and fifty albums with his arc extra in
whole premise of it was there. He was essentially kind of like the profit
returned from saturn to help lead,
humanity. If not just african americans off of earth,
because things like slavery had ruined earth and he had this whole methods. This wasn't just like a concept album that he he put this right wholesome counter career yeah yeah for decades. This is too how he lived in Hee Hee
inspired a lot of people in I'm with you,
The kind of jazz is hard for me to to listen tuna matter, who's playing it but
he had an album from nineteen. Fifty seven that I think is super easy to listen to called supersonic jazz thickets technically before
before he moved to new york and really set up the orchestra. But it's clear
leave sondra like you? Can you can tell answer? If you
want to try out. Sun, RA and you've tried some of his later stuff and you're, like I'm, not ready for this listening
supersonic jazz their album first and seem to think that
don't let them down there to that that confusing
don't so confusion jazz,
much more accessible as george Clinton in parliament funk adele guy the air,
I am a big fan always have been. I tend to lean more toward the funk adela records and in the parliament, even though I love the parliaments of two,
but he is someone I've seen a few times in alive and I'm going to see him again next month, where
at symphony hall, where we're performing phoning I'd just like to share the same.
It's not at the same time. Obviously, but just to be
the same stage that george couldn't will be on herb had been on this critical yeah we're not worthy, but
always a great show his band is, is awesome. I mean it.
It's very space age he used to have the mothership that would come down on the sage. He had entered the mothership, all
it's a great sort of
for the eyes and ears. Hey they're reminds me before you got I'm sorry to interrupt, but they're, just coincidentally the the
in exhibit right now at the national museum of african american history in DC, is f
future ism.
and one of the core things they have on display is a replica of the. U s, foe that george Clayton would come on the stage in them.
The ship, there is like life size. Yes,
yeah like an exact replica because apparently threw away the one that he used in the seventies and in the night when they started trying again they made
flickr. I think that's the exact one: that's in the smithsonian yeah
The first time I saw him was when he started up again, and he was on that lollapalooza tour
He played a show us arm of the law, the police, about us on the night before at the center.
age theatre. We also played there actually
Where does it all george could not
but he did the show at the centerstage, and you know he was getting up there in age at the time back then- and I imagine when I see him next month, like he's an older guy now, but he was
he was still getting down back then, and he had the the boys came out at the end and cause they were playing.
applause and sort of like us all, starting in sweet. It was pretty great, but am
Clinton was a kid who listen, I'm sorry, you watch star trek and
buck rogers and was indecipherable, and it was again it was one of the things where he didn't see any
at presentation. He just knew what right away.
we took ass it later on and watch two thousand space out is eaten in fantasia when he took lsd for the first time and that you know
at some pretty profound impact, so
the things that I didn't realize cause you know we're living in the post, parliament era, but one
things that parliament did was unite generally for
actually black community
after the mlk assassination, apparently them
There was a lot of just fracturing in in the black community and
four years later, George Clinton came along and kind of trying to bring
people, together by by throwing a party for further for the effort-
american community in the united states
oh really, and so the whole pull premise was that
clayton and the rest of the people. All source
who include like bury war. All are burning, morale and boots collins. They-
aliens who come to earth to teach everybody how to party they.
This is a quote effort, not capable of funky ties in galaxies man, it's a girl,
want to quickly mention local. Ah,
atlanta, guy Lonnie Holly as well money you, member matter net, our friend, who
We know that their allotted for ways you're in atlanta, but
supporter of the arts and matt is lobbies kind of friends,
I guess I guess, he's a tour manager and manager but
at lahti holly's is a modern,
representation of sort of what
ro future is amiss and still plays these small shows in his stuff. It's really real
a good area. Just
awful. Unlike intense and weird, it's really cool yeah. It's super supercool. I've never heard his stuff, but I'm going to check it out now
yeah. If you can see him, life gets it, that's when it gets really can avert awesome,
take me to show
I well hidden play a lot. I just so. He played new york recently cause Michael stipe of courses, air
finally have to new york. What's your problem,
I saw a match in in court the other day soap.
we were only able to tax from across the court recruitment. There's gotta be a story there. We were both fighting the man, you know we were both right and basically does the bureaucracy of Atlanta had kept us down and find us from various things. Hashtag hero,
yeah. I can get into later later, but both of us were like this is such bs, so yeah, so the whole parliament,
myths that kind of developed
it actually did help bring people together. Quite a bit in image is kind of a point work, not just black people, but white people and people of all color who were into funk good
it has come together and agree on that which is like if
If you just kind of look at it like that, it's like yeah they they had abandoned a lot of people like them, but but if you
kind of scratch, just one
hold down. That's really significant to to make something on purpose, to per
we bring people together and other
talk about problems are too
hammer issues out or anything like that, but just a kind of giver,
the place it can breathe and chill together and get away from the rest of the issue.
in this kind of come together. That's what parliament did and I think that's pretty neat
They are not the only group that ever did there, but it's you
George Clinton's express purpose was doing that from what I get from what I can tell
and he put his own like cool psychedelic, futures,
spin on it, you know and another just real, quick aside thing another.
A musician, that's often overlooked, but sometimes cited as ever. Futurists is least scratch perry who now you're aided debray gay man he did
Do some kind of far out stuff use a far out dude apparently, but
like just his music alone has like a spacey vibe to it that uses you're overlooked
yet, if you dont include it feature ism pressure, we have
they were art a little bit
in all of this is art, obviously, but
jean Michel Basquiat. One of the
great artist and in our history here, north America. He is one of the four
several futurists of in the fine art world in
he was a guy that was, it was listening to fuck it elegant parliament and groups like that and hip hop culture and formed his art
there was this graffiti artist and an more name rambles eu. I looked
this guy man, I had never heard of him. He died in two thousand ten, but he was a boy.
Sculptor in a writer and performance artist and graffiti artist in history
looks really really cool and he was used.
Every one of these guys it was you know, dressing
is like this futuristic show he was blending
cultures and john risen
ask you out was bodies with him, so all these people were do
the stuff. You know it wasn't
like owing to seek fame and fortune as a graffiti artists to dresses up like a futuristic, samurai right. They were doing this stuff cause it was like,
but move them in it stands out because there were a lot of black people doing this kind of thing right. That's the
The initiation of a movement that
where's, the arts readily
octavia a also I mean I mean of hallmark of founder of
black science fiction writing and also after a future ism, but just
you're talking about ramble z in basque yacht. Like she wasn't.
Trying to create like a place for black people,
to write in science fiction. This is just what she
we to escape her own life and our own self consciousness. She wrote
So if I stories like this, we're gonna wait and she was
We good at it, there's a
a great kind biography on her called
spectacular life of octavia butler that was involved
that's worth reading it really
that's into her her life and a career she's, a really
exceptional person, but she just
and started slow was
They much underpaid overlooked in just kept adding kept at. Finally, in the nineties
for really sorry to recognise our went back and looked at some of her past work and said this this writers.
amazing yeah,
the first sci rider to get a macarthur genius grant,
and there's a tv show
Last year, the year before from her book, kindred yeah
from nineteen. Seventy nine, which I wasn't I didn't see it. I saw the ethics cancelled it.
after one sees them, but that was about it. The premises really cool about a modern black woman who time travels to meet her in the past.
Who enslaved her and I remember seeing the trailers and stuff at the time I was like this looks really good, but I didn't realize that it was in octavia butler book. So I just learned that, like today or
yeah. That was just one book kindred. She also had a serious called
As you know, geneva series from the eighties parable of the solar was
the beginning of a series that she wrote in. I think it came out ninety ninety three, and that was the one that got everybody's attention and then they were
back we're like oh good. This lady has a whole can and that we get
read now
because she was she's pretty me, I strongly recommend going in reading the spectacular life of octavia butler yeah.
Should we take another break? Yes, ok, what's he gonna break
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really started to change where after features and went from this coffee,
that kind of existed, sporadically
to being defined by a white journalists in the mid nineties, incoming coming mainstream.
Starting in the late nineties. Thanks in large part method really realises until you said it too will smith
getting rules like men in black,
independence day.
Oh, I am legend,
actually I alongside remember he responded tons of siphoned movies. I never really realized it before
but he was a huge kind of glass
dealing breaker for
african americans inside five, because up to that point it was like a feast
a black person in a sci fi movie or horror movie,
Now you just knew that they were one of the first ones to die. That's just like this long to any kind of drug yeah yeah, and
It started to change in the nineties where they're like. Oh, actually, we can use a black protagonist in and they can actually carry the movie
If you get well smith in their who else, can we give a chance to
Wesley snipes yeah using blake
the matrix, of course featured not an elite, but they featured you know people of color in their trilogy,
I think more and more in the second third movies, even
and then you know today owes like his jordan, peel and ever futurists or maker and arrest.
Stuff in like he,
he dabbled in it. Some it's not like straight up after a future ism.
The traditional sense that you might think of, but there
certainly elements of it in everything is done, especially this this last when and nope that was more yeah me
no spoilers there, but that movie was not the movie. I thought it was. It was way more cipher, airless, horror for sure, but
it is kind of you know carrying that torch along in his own way, in a way that
kind of dabbled in after a future isn't that
his way more mainstream witches
Evil thing you know yes,
That is a great example of what I was talking about earlier, where I didn't really realize. I heard the term efforts features and before obviously, but I never really looked into it
so we started researching this, but
I did I realize, like it, just pops up all over the place and that's a really good example of his jordan. Peels movies like yeah. They say they are not necessarily like. The whole point is, after a feature, ism
Is it just shows up? It's like an influence, its part of the whole, the whole thing,
and there's a colson whitehead's. Another good example of that too. He is like one of the gleaming.
Beacons of literature right now
and in his very realistic novel
fantastic stuff can happen, and that's that
ever futures and popping its head up as well get. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the future, but it falls under.
Speculative fiction or speculative literature in some way shape or form yeah,
I guess we can talk about music, a little more yeah, let's be
again it just like movies. In the late nineteenth things
starting in the early mid nineties, things really started to take it after a future.
Stick. Turning in music
and by way of hip hop. If you look at the history of hiphop, the
They have ever a future ism, as is kind of woven throughout it.
You know earlier or groups groups that I really like digital planets and
I don't know if you ever listen to any cool keith stuff, but cookies had a character
in a concept album. He did called doktor octagon.
It's very weird and awesome, and I won't giveaway is kind of weird
he's at either time travelling, gynecologist right
So I guess I did, can we give it away, but it's really good, which hang
course specifically rizzo with Bobby digital,
and then when I was looking at you,
like beyond, say users can have ever of futuristic aesthetics and a lot of her videos and stayed shows
and so large does to but
when I was kind of reading about them and genoa monet his certainly
They represent every ever a future ism I could
like Mr Elliot like. Why are we talking about miss eliot? Guess she was before all of them in was could real,
get out there. As far as you know, talking about
riding around spaceships instead, yet oliver videos are super afro, futuristic, even when she s sitting there in front of the camera like like rapid, like she's
he's doing weird stuff foresees an outer space or season
virtual reality, or something like that. Yeah she's. Definitely at least him
if not an influence of afrofuturism features
I know what I saw that I hadn't consider, but, unlike oh yeah, totally digital planets aspires
their first time. They were from
outer space. They were insects from outer space come to help.
World out, and I just never thought about that before.
yeah they're, that's all that
well? I got a side story, lt off air, but then I saw them in college in athens and then- and you saw them in court last week and then the only other,
and I saw them, was on their reunion tour. A couple years ago area so
the big breakin between but whose great, but the second item
It was really awesome and it wasn't ever a beauty
No, but it is one of the greatest number of all types of good giant where we can't talk about all of the people, but we'll talk about a couple of more because I want to mention
John jennings and Stacy Robinson,
two? Are there in the comic book world? They work under the name black kirby,
which is obviously a refund, the great comic book artist, jack Kirby.
And they re imagined sort of kirby stuff through the african american lens and how things are,
the unkillable buck instead of the incredible hulk and stuff like that, is really cool. Looking
and then they are, I think, influenced by one of the first african american comic book,
and writers was larry, fuller and the late sixties. I he created character, name ebon, he be o n, which I think was,
First, like superhero, at least among the first. Yes, I want the black kirby characters is major saint coca,
Recent creature- you say it, but it sanctifies, like it means
get the spirit of going look
backward into the past.
And taking what's good there and take moving it into the future
and it was major saint cofa. Instead of captain America and its it's cool, I like that whole concept for sure
yeah. And if we're gonna talk, comics we have to choose
without stanley inject kirby, because they created black panther
and that is sort of, maybe the the
biggest most mainstream exam.
Or of afro futures.
on the big screen
though we ve ever seen. These black panther movies are huge there. Why?
they successful there award winning and they are afro, futuristic like to a t yeah
Apparently we have chadwick bozeman thank for keeping all of the air,
can characters from having british acceptance here. Man can you imagine, like colonization ahoy, like all these pity, eyebrows jackson, so heap insist,
did that they speak with the south african accent, not the british kind, but, oh sir, I did it that that day,
the the action they were speaking with the poster closer you did it
I gotta three down. Those are pretty good. I think it's hawser, no, not anymore.
we'll german knows as a different.
The hard thing to do? It's that the zulu? You know I click language for lack of a better
Term, but it some it's hard to do it is you have to go
at the same time that you're saying something.
I practice it earlier, and I was like- I can't do it. So I was going to try foot hats off to you, sir. So casa
assets held trevor. Noah, said: ok and of course he was on this down
Well he's around south africa of the fur to him
so where are we now with afro future ism? We are in a better place than we therefore ban. As far as
more and more stuff, it's becoming more mainstream.
Is just sort of different in
other than it used to be
But this is where we ve got to the point where people,
or to drill down on the term.
Some people say like you know, is it? Is it just
two broad of a thing
all sort of all this stuff. F, you ever a mannequin messing up after
future ism. When it, you know there are people,
because it beginning they said no. It should always believe his name was his
science fiction, fancy writer nigerian american name.
Turkey on your boots said,
It should always be addressing world,
is alec, rising black suffering. Otherwise it shouldn't count.
though people have formed other words like astro, black
That's a pretty cool one year s no gothic that one's name, my alex out into the black fantastic
magical realism, em there's another another nigerian american science fiction, writer name
indeed a core afore. I think a pronouncing that right
and she going the term african futurists and
so you know these these african american or are great
like I also like to tell the story, is through the lens of that, you know,
africans in so african future ism is,
in all these cultures. Yeah
can computers in african jewess defer fantasy kind of stuff.
I'm that was that debate. I was talking about earlier. I guess it just through the lens of african americans or what,
So when you said it, it's gone mainstream. We reached the point where its becoming so mainstream that it's just part of power.
culture, it's not like a separate tangential or additional part of pop
culture, it's infused into pop culture, and so you
So the point where you liked even need a name for this anymore is right
it is what it is and if that's the case, then thin people like
samuel, Delaney and all
people came before him, octavia butler
son raw george cling were fully success.
Even if they didn't intend to do to create
something like that?
they were still successful in their own way out
I think it so mainstream. Now there are four
were studio. Executives, that are alike
the black people and space thing had networks as theirs. Why don't we have our urgent zactly right, and that means mainstream?
means that everybody needs a figure out. A new artistic path to blaze.
That's right and I don't feel bad making fun of the studio exacts because they are.
I want to pay their artists, fair wages, and that's why the writers on strike.
a quick couple, more people, man's l, bowman,
as a graphic designer. He does amazing stuff, lina iris viktor, an amazing painter, kamasi, washington, kind of carrying on the vibe of sun ra, but way way more melodic and then
like you said. You know monet she's, the poster child of effort,
features and right now to her with her concept, Alan turing, computer and
book set in the same world memory. Librarian she's is totally going nuts on it and outright
you mean by the way, just loves her has a crush on her. She said well, cheap
Is it just about say she's, also, my celebrity crush. You mean I share that really great yeah, it's hard not do
I gotta keep you in human genome and out of the same room. Let's get it
dirty computer meant what a great record now and I'm
was he beyond say later this year and I've never been to a big pop,
Joe, like that in my life,
and I just like having you know- I'm not even
not even a huge beyond, say, fan just cause.
Not something I listen to much but, like you know, I want to go to one of these big pop chosen and blankets.
Who else should I go to my candidacy? Taylor, swift are gonna, be answered, her less
I mean I'm sure the tables which shows great do but yeah bounties looks like more. It might be taylor, swift, her show-
This tourists apparently three hours long. Yet it was
the amazing my mom when actually she got free tickets there friendlier and
then go to stuff like that in my country, concerts and stuff, and isn't it
the big taylor swift, personage, used to suck it was so great. Well,
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