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Lytton Smith commented on the post, Blog Post Week 4: Afrofuturistic Themes in SZA’s “Ctrl”, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 2 months, 3 weeks agoProductive and engaging thoughts here, Ryan. I think you’re stronger on interweaving “speak dialogically” than “polyvocality” though I’d have to go back and listen to Ctrl before being too insistent on that. But […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, Afrofuturism portrayed by Mos Def & Talib Kweli, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 2 months, 3 weeks agoLovely work not just with an album but a specific text, a song from that album. The Bluest Eye is a Toni Morrison novel, and her work has interesting connections with Afrofuturism, even if not conventionally seen […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, The Forces We Bring-Kazon Robinson, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 2 months, 3 weeks agoYou might look especially at the ending to Snead’s piece as an example of the pluralistic possibility – ultimately, he’s calling European culture Black without that culture knowing it. And you’re right that Snead […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, AfroFuturism in J Coles KOD album, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 2 months, 3 weeks agoYour identification of KOD here raises a really important question for our class: when is a work Afrocentric or Afroaware, and when Afrofuturist? I love noname’s Telefon […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, “Invisible Man”, Afrofuturism, and Ethnocentrism, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 2 months, 3 weeks agoA worthy choice of text here, Luke; it’s sometimes seen as the earliest Afro-futurist text (before that term was coined) although we can go back further, and need to think about specifically African, rather than […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, Renee Cox (Afrofuturism), on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 2 months, 3 weeks agoGreat find, Lael! And interesting because of the ways it brings in the kinds of intersectionality we’ve discussed, something I see modeled not just in the gender presentation of the figures here (the re-casting of […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, Afrofuturism in Food, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 2 months, 3 weeks agoThere’s also, to add to Lael and Luke’s comments, a sense in which food can cross the boundary from necessity to art, which you’re getting at with your point about trends towards the vegan, Grainger (though we […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, Afrofuturism in furniture, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 2 months, 3 weeks agoWhat a great idea to bring to the table! Not least because it might help us see that Snead isn’t validate a mechanistic repetition (dehumanizing industry) so much as a kind of cultural satisfaction with […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, Modern Music and Afrofuturism, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 2 months, 3 weeks agoA wonderful, challenging idea here, Emma; you’re pointing out some important qualifications and working through them well via the theory. I particularly think there’s exciting potential for work here on the lines […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, response week 3, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 3 months agoI love this thread! So glad so many of you are on it.
You’re also working with partial evidence – not reading the whole of the Libretto – and that limits what you can conclude. But notice how he talks of […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, Keep to the Rhythm-Kazon Robinson, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 3 months agoIt’s fascinating to think, as you two are doing, that Snead might be underestimating Blackness…it’s an idea we can return to as we finish reading him. For now, though, I’d like to clarify that Snead isn’t saying […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, The appropriation of black repetition, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 3 months agoGreat work with quotes here, Izzy, showing us how to integrate and explain Snead’s ideas. But what I love most is your bringing this to the question of appropriation – that’s a great insight.
Snead’s a little […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, Mr. Hughes And “Lieder”, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 3 months agoSatire is a key word here, and in class we’ll think about to what end Hughes is creating satire. “Cultural exchange” is something we’re definitely seeing called into question in Snead (and Tolson); Hughes’ amps […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, My Perception of Culture, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 3 months agoI love learning about “survivance” here – it could be really helpful to think more about this in texts we’re reading, and about how the past and future might be said to survive attempts to eradicate them through […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, Music and Afrofuturism, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 3 months agoWe’ll get to Sun Ra and his Arkestra soon, which is where my own interest in Afrofuturism began…if you want to explore further, check out Amiri Baraka’s book BLUES PEOPLE, which explores the development of the […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, Blog Post Week 3, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 3 months agoI do think it’s important to recognize that Afrofuturism isn’t confined to one kind of creative practice or cultural form – there’s Afrofuturist dance, and so on, and that’s why “speculative fiction” as one […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, Blog Post Week 3, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 3 months agoYes, I think you’re right to trace senses of fear and anxiety in “apprehension,” Ryan – Snead is seeing “transformation” as not necessarily a positive, as tainted by stemming not from innovative creativity but […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, Langston Hughes and Afrofuturism, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 3 months agoGreat points to raise here, both of you. Emma, that Lael gets to understand afrofuturism through your post as “what could be” – a really smart insight, Lael; it’s the “speculative” that’s not quite “science […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, Smith BLKS188 Fall 18, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 3 months, 2 weeks agoI hope you won’t mind that I think it’s good to begin a semester being jarred, although I’m not setting out to frustrate and enrage you all…Hegel’s views, as you indicate, infiltrate and pave the way for […]
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Lytton Smith commented on the post, BKS 188- Afrofuturism-Week 1 Reflection, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 3 months, 2 weeks ago(Love that opening!) You’re wrestling in useful ways here with Afrofuturist attempts to acknowledge problematic symbiotic or combative relationships between Africa and the European-influenced West and to create […]
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