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* ''The Immeasurable Equation. The Collected Poetry and Prose by Sun Ra''. Compiled and edited by James L. Wolf and Harttnut Geerken
 
* ''The Immeasurable Equation. The Collected Poetry and Prose by Sun Ra''. Compiled and edited by James L. Wolf and Harttnut Geerken
 
* ''Social Text - Afrofuturism''. Issue 71. 2002. Edited by Alondra Nelson
 
* ''Social Text - Afrofuturism''. Issue 71. 2002. Edited by Alondra Nelson
* ''Unexpected Stories.'' By Octavia Butler
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* ''Octavia E. Butler - Modern Masters of Science Fiction.'' By Gerry Canavan

Revision as of 14:32, 31 October 2017

Type: Dataset
Number of words: ...
Unique words: ...
Source(s): aaaaarg.fail
Developed by: Sun Ra, James L. Wolf, Harttnut Geerken, Alondra Nelson, Octavia Butler, Algolit

On the 26th of October Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam organised an evening of technological speculation. The speaker Florence Okoye asked the questions How can we embody an understanding of technology as revelation? and How would an AstroBlack technologist interpret the Agile methodology?

This dataset doesn't aim to find answers, but rather propose a collective exercise in imagination

What will a machine learn from an Afrofuturist dataset?

Books in this dataset:

  • The Immeasurable Equation. The Collected Poetry and Prose by Sun Ra. Compiled and edited by James L. Wolf and Harttnut Geerken
  • Social Text - Afrofuturism. Issue 71. 2002. Edited by Alondra Nelson
  • Octavia E. Butler - Modern Masters of Science Fiction. By Gerry Canavan