AstroBlackness
From Algolit
| Type: | Dataset |
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| 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
- Unexpected Stories. By Octavia Butler