Modern Griots Recap: Poetic Fragments from the Afrofuturism Conference at The New School Part 2

Several months ago I attended the Afrofuturism Conference at The New School. While due to my other work I didn’t get a chance to do a recap of the event right after, it had a profound effect on me. I took all the notes I had from it and wrote a series of poems inspired […]

Modern Griots Recap: Poetic Fragments from the Afrofuturism Conference at The New School

Processing, Processing… Recap of Kodwo Eshun Lecture

Last Tuesday, I went to Kodwo Eshun‘s lecture, “In the Hour of the Halogen Wolves,” that was part of the Afrofuturism series and as the the title suggests, it was very dense. This man has a lot to say and he is definitely sesquipedalian (go look it up), but I did learn a lot. So, […]

Lecture Time

Do you live in New York City? Are you interested in going to a few conferences on Afrofuturism? First, Parsons School of Design, part of The New School, is hosting several lectures over the next few months in Manhattan. Some of the speakers include Alondra Nelson (that one was one Sept. 20), Julie Mehretu (Oct. 4), […]