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The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics
Artist/Author: Louis Chude-Sokei | Reference: P4016 | ISBN: 978-0819575777 | Type: Publication
Explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories.
Africa
afro-futurism
American
artificial intelligence
automata
black
blackface
British
Caribbean
creolization
criticism
cyberpunk
cybertheory
Donna Haraway
dub music
Edgar Rice Burroughs
evolution
Herman Melville
history
industrialisation
literature
master/slave
minstrelsy
modernism
music
nationalism
Norbert Weiner
posthumanism
primitivism
race
racism
Rastafarianism
reggae
robot
Samuel Butler
Samuel R. Delany
science fiction
Sigmund Freud
slavery
surrealism
Sylvia Wynter
theory
uncanny
Victorian
William Gibson
dDumY – Another Myself
Artist/Author: Colette Sadler | Reference: D1938 | Type: DVD
Video of solo performance. The work questions human identity through an investigation of the non-human form as object, animal ad automata. Includes leaflet with concept, reviews, artist’s biography and performance notes.
