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- It was conceptually open ended without any kind of narrative.” 1 Miller’s assessment of past forms of Afrofuturism is certainly arguable, but contemporary singer, songwriter, dancer, performance artist, and self-proclaimed “funkstress” Janelle Monáe explodes any notion that Afrofuturism is no more. 2 If we define Afrofuturism as African American cultural production and political theory that imagine less constrained black subjectivity in the future and that produce a profound critique of current...
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Apr 26, 2022 · Like Butler before her, Monáe works in a genre called Afrofuturism. Loosely defined, it imagines the future of Black liberation from a hostile world—ours.
- Mary Retta
Jan 11, 2022 · Janelle Monáe has countered these systems of power by challenging clear distinctions between past, present, and future, which has grounded her creative work in the production of musical worlds that have been described as sonic Afrofuturism.
- Dan Hassler-Forest
- d.a.hassler-forest@uu.nl
May 13, 2022 · Tracing Monáe’s performances of joy, desire, pain, and hope across a wide range of media forms, it shows how she imagines Afrofuturist, posthumanist, and postcapitalist utopias, while remaining grounded in the realities of being a Black woman in a white-dominated industry.
- Dan Hassler-Forest
- May 13, 2022
Apr 4, 2022 · Janelle Monáe has been a driving force in Afrofuturism and a practical theorist of Black embodiment for the past fifteen years, and with her 2018 album and (e)motion picture, Dirty Computer, she has cemented herself as a pop sensation.
May 16, 2018 · The power of that transformation turns Dirty Computer into a jubilant, queer, Afrofuturist vision of what Metropolis could be. It’s one of the more gripping moments in modern science fiction, made...
- Aja Romano
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Jul 13, 2022 · It wasn't until she released her first album, The ArchAndroid, that she became aware that her work was considered Afrofuturist, a subgenre of science fiction that explores the past, present and...
