Space Is the Place Offers Otherworldly Takes on Identity. As an idiom and an approach, Afrofuturism is restricted neither to Africans, Americans nor African Americans. Lizzie Bordens Born in Flames 1. John Sayless The Brother From Another Planet 1. Afrofuturist canon and are both by white American filmmakers. Other artists represented in the series were born in Britain or are based there. Wanuri Kahius Pumzi 2. Kenya Frances Bodomos more optimistic and ironic Afronauts 2. United States and Zambia. Robots Of Brixton Theater Movie' title='Robots Of Brixton Theater Movie' />NZD New Zealand Dollar Latest News, Analysis and Forex. Latest NZD market news, analysis and New Zealand Dollar trading forecast. An ancient Egyptian past melds with an extraterrestrial future or vice versa in both John Coneys Space Is the Place 1. Blaxploitation fantasy, and The Last Angel of History 1. John Akomfrah whose interviewees include Mr. Tate the novelist Ishmael Reed and the multimedia artist Paul D. Miller, a. k. a. DJ Spooky. Photo. An image from Terence Nances playful An Oversimplification of Her Beauty 2. Credit. Variance FilmsPhotofest Afrofuturism existed before it was named. This is updated as of April 14, 2016. My list of great rock and related genre songs is now at 8341 songs by 2534 different artists depending on how you count them. In Black to the Future, the 1. Mark Dery that popularized the term, Mr. Tate cited Ralph Ellisons The Invisible Man as a precursor, along with science fiction novels by Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler, Jean Michel Basquiats artwork and Public Enemys album Fear of a Black Planet, remarking, I dont know if it gets any more sci fi than thatMusicians are key, notably the avant garde jazz composer and bandleader Sun Ra born Herman Poole Blount in Birmingham, Ala., who recast himself as an extraterrestrial and performed in appropriately fanciful costumes, and the similarly flamboyant self invented funk maestro George Clinton, the leader of the band Parliament, whose 1. Mothership Connection on which he speaks as the Star Child addressing the citizens of the universe, is a crucial text. Kilauea Mount Etna Mount Yasur Mount Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira Piton de la Fournaise Erta Ale. Read the latest stories about LIFE on Time. I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams Full Movie on this page. I loafe and invite my soul. The Brooklyn Academy series is titled after a Sun Ra production in Space Is the Place, he stars as himself, beamed to Earth from Saturn to wage a war of mind control against the satanic supernatural pimp known as the Overseer. Delivering a message to black America, Sun Ra declares, Time has officially ended, and later announces, Everything you have desired on this planet and never received will be yours in outer space. Sun Ra is the subject of a more straightforward documentary portrait, Robert Mugges A Joyful Noise 1. Mr. Clinton is a presence, as host of a three part TV movie, Cosmic Slop 1. Twilight Zone inflected anthology directed by Reginald Hudlin his older brother, Warrington Hudlin and Kevin Rodney Sullivan. Mr. Clark has further expanded the parameters of Afrofuturism by including Shirley Clarkes portrait of the jazz musician and composer Ornette Coleman, Ornette Made in America 1. Mr. Colemans cosmology and music some of which, according to the documentary, was requested by NASA for use in its space shuttle program. The closest thing to an Afrofuturist manifesto is The Last Angel of History. Its director, Mr. Akomfrah, a founder of the Black Audio Film Collective and former governor of the British Film Institute, uses the framing device of a 2. Robert Johnson to sample and explicate Afrofuturist music. In addition to Sun Ra and Mr. Clinton, the movie advances the Jamaican music producer Lee Scratch Perry as one of the modes forefathers. Although Gil Scott Herons caustic Whitey on the Moon, a poem that invoked ghetto misery to bring NASA triumphalism crashing to earth, might be considered a critique of Afrofuturism, the features included in Space Is the Place are largely representations of oppression and resistance. Born in Flames concerns a gender war, refracted through the news media, that involves a largely black and lesbian army. Welcome II the Terrordome, which acknowledges a Public Enemy opus in its title, is a ferocious rap opera set in a dystopian Bantustan and using a call for revolution delivered by Malcolm X. Mr. Clark is particularly pleased to be showing a 3. Terrordome has barely surfaced here. It will blow peoples minds, he told me. Sankofa is a graphic account of American slavery, while, more benign but no less angry, The Brother From Another Planet stars Joe Morton as an expressively mute, enslaved extraterrestrial who is chased by a pair of robotic white slave hunters David Strathairn and Mr. Sayles and finds refuge in Harlem. As elastic as it is, the Afrofuturist vision contains multitudes. Terence Nances playful and obsessively self reflexive love story An Oversimplification of Her Beauty 2. Afrofuturist largely in its sense of self invention and intermittently cosmic animation. The series has room for Hollywood as well, in the form of Blade, the 1. Wesley Snipes as a half vampire vampire slayer. No satisfactory print was available for The Spook Who Sat by the Door a 1. Ivan Dixon in which the C. I. A. s token African American operative puts his training at the service of a black revolution which Mr. Clark sees as a complement to Welcome II the Terrordome. In an essay for the Sight and Sound website, Mr. Clark argued that Steve Mc. Queens recent 1. Years a Slave was akin to Afrofuturism. Anticipated in some ways by the more overtly sci fi Sankofa, the movie takes its audience to another planet our own, where the truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. The Afrofuturist mission is to make that truth evident. Continue reading the main story. Gates of Vienna. Note Takuans post which was originally published last night is to remain at the top for a while, so I made it sticky. However, much has happened since it went up, including the Blogger outage. Scroll down for a report on that. See also Two forthrightly anti Semitic Islamic leaders in Norway, Judicial coddling in Germany, and Part 3 of the Imran Firasat interview. More new posts will be added below this one. Oh, and dont mess around with JIM. The essay below is the conclusion of the ninth part in a series by Takuan Seiyo. See the list at the bottom of this post for links to the previous installments. Left Pierre Auguste Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, 1. Right George Grosz, Metropolis, 1. The Bee and the Lamb. Part 9 continuedBy Takuan Seiyo. A Whole New Road to Serfdom. That Which is Not Seen continuedFor over 6. White mea culpists have had a firm grip in all fields of cultural mind imprinting education high and low paper media, then electronic, then digital media all forms of entertainment, the plastic arts and music high and low, and religious instruction and worship too. Their main endeavor has been to enforce their compulsory e. K 1. 2 and discretionary e. Slavery, Colonialism, Imperialism, Male Supremacism, Racism, Antisemitism, and so on. Its the evils of the Iberian Inquisition which were evil but not the evils of the Japanese equivalent in which, in the 4. Christians were publicly crucified, burned or beheaded. Nor the evils of the worldwide Islamic Inquisition which not in the 1. Muslim apostates to barbaric execution. Its Americas destruction of the snail darter but not Mussulmanisms destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas or its proposed destruction of the Sphinx and the Pyramids, let alone its obliteration of all the pre Rome cradles of Christianity but for remaining ruins in the Middle East and dust of the desert in North Africa. Its the evils of feudalism and industrial workers exploitation in Europe and America, but not the strict Confucian evils of Northeast Asia. There, a member of the ruling class in China had, essentially, a free hand with anyone of the lower classes, a Japanese samurai could test his sword by cutting down an insolent peasant, and farmers were so squeezed by their fief holders that they habitually sold their daughters to bordellos for the few coins it provided for next seasons seed. Feminism, Socialism and anti Antisemitism should have arisen in Saudi Arabia or Yemen, Algeria or Peshawar, for good reasons. Instead, aggressive White androphobes of all genders which I can no longer count are decimating the philogynous and egalitarian West. Equality psychos are tearing down the most egalitarian society that ever existed except for initial communist experiments, before they turned bloody. American Jews, at the apex of the greatest fortune and philosemitic tolerance their long diaspora has ever bestowed on their kind, are busy supporting all the ideologies and policies that demolish their safe harbor and build up their Muslim, Black and Third World enemies. They will come to rue their tacit assumption that better the antisemite you dont know than the few hundred imputed and real ones catalogued at ADL. One would be hard put to find a nation not based on the invasion of another peoples territory and their mass slaughter. Yet poisoned American madmen proclaim No Thanks for Thanksgiving as though the Indians themselves did not fight endless genocidal wars from Peru to Canada, with torture, ritual murder or slavery for the captives and, at times, cannibalism too. Leftoid masochists and the Christian meek call for returning Hawaii to the Hawaiians and capitulating before a massive Mexican reconquista of one third of America. The self defined Feminist Tauist Neo. Pagan Post Structuralist Deconstructionist Socialist useful idiot Gillian Schutte begins her New Year 2. Dear White People by wholeheartedly apologizing for what my ancestors did to the people of South Africa and inviting you to do the same. Yet the Magyars dont seem to feel much guilt over the Illyrians, Pannonians, Sarmatians and Celts whose land and lives they took in the 9th century, to form Hungary. The rightful Etruscan landowners are not bearing angry placards in front of the Vatican. The Japanese are not planning to relinquish Hokkaido to its original owners, the Ainu. The tall, white and fair haired Chachapoyas of the Andean forest have, alas, no remnants left to sue the Incas for genocide in a Peruvian court of law. The Aztecs, whether in Jalisco or Los Angeles, dont agonize over having taken what would become Mexico City from its original Culhuacan owners, with lots of grisly details. Yet for 3. 8 years Neil Young has been reminding adoring audiences about Cortez the Killer, discreetly omitting Tlacaelel the killer and the killer people whom Cortez killed. Hitlers Willing Executioners Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust 1. Daniel Goldhagen presenting the thesis that the German nation as such was composed of willing executioners of the Jews because of a unique eliminationist antisemitism in the German people, with long historical roots. However, even that great moral abyss of Western civilization the Holocausts stands out more in its industrialized and organizational features than it does either in the quality of its hatefulness or its relative or even absolute volumes. And Holocausts they were, for in addition to the nearly 6 million Jews, the Germans also murdered over 2. Slavs, and thats counting Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Czechoslovakia alone. In absolute numbers, the total number of World War II non German civilian victims of Nazi Germany is smaller than the 5. Bolsheviks in Russia, or Maos 7. China, or the Mughal Muslim genocide of Hindus the latter have their own Holocaust Day on August 1. In relative numbers, in just one year, 1. Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, killed off a total of one million, in a population of 7 million. Tutsi population was erased. Is it more humane to go by a stroke of a blunt machete than by a whiff of Zyklon B The Khmer Rouge murdered at least 2 million Cambodians between 1. Is it more humane to die by wallops from a Cambodian pickaxe handle than by a bullet from a German MauserInscription on the back in German Ukraine 1. Jewish Aktion, Ivangorod. There is a special horror attached to the Third Reich, because those were 2. Europeans, Christians, and in many ways the smartest, most civilized people on Earth. But the Holocausts do not prove that Whites are worse than other people, just that they are no better. The history of the Third Reich also proves that with the right formula of economic blowup, misery and humiliation, sparked by charismatic evil, no people are immune to such horror, at no time.