Publications
Afrofuturism and its Possibility of Elsewhere
Pay attention to the visions for the future put forward in today’s world by politicians, intellectuals and scientists:
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The development of technologies to sustain human life on other planets; new digital realities; the altering of human DNA.
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Who is this future for?
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What is not recognized as possible in our future is equally telling: No substantial strategy to tackle climate change; few equitable responses to the COVID-19 pandemic; no end to the ongoing dispossession of Indigenous lands from South Africa to Canada to Palestine; no basic services to those who live daily without food or clean drinking water, even in the world’s richest countries.
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Progress, it seems, is measured in technological breakthroughs and not social uplift. Many of the “big visions” on offer for our future overlook those who wear the persistent wounds of slavery, genocide, colonialism and capitalist exploitation...
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Waging War on the Citizen: State Sovereignty, Citizen Death and
the War on Terror (2015)
One of the defining features of the contemporary era is the occurrence of non-localized warfare, in which the enemy can be considered fluid and always changing. The above quote reminds us that history has provided multiple examples of how wars are apt to change and shift the foundations of states; but there is something unique to be said about the qualities of modern war and the change it has prompted. A military technological revolution has culminated in the unprecedented use of drones as primary agents of war (specifically in the “War on Terror”), which has in turn shifted the traditional relations of conflict.