Afrofuturist fiction proceeds from the position of an enslaved, silenced, subaltern Other within ... more Afrofuturist fiction proceeds from the position of an enslaved, silenced, subaltern Other within the history of the US. It responds by constructing various strategic discontinuities with historical time, including anachronism, apocalypse, and utopia. This talk will survey the use of these narrative strategies in Afrofuturist work by Sun Ra, Octavia Butler, Andrea Hairston, and in the recent anthology of activist science fiction, Octavia's Brood .
... futures are especially basic to science fiction. Evo-lutionary theory and anthropology also s... more ... futures are especially basic to science fiction. Evo-lutionary theory and anthropology also serve as frameworks for the Social Darwinian ideologies that pervade early sciencefiction. The complex mixture of ideas about competition ...
sentience, and do the readings, together, add up to some particular whole? All readers would, I t... more sentience, and do the readings, together, add up to some particular whole? All readers would, I think, have benefited from a conclusion that addressed those questions, and academic readers will also be left with additional questions about method. Why, for example, does Shaviro translate occasional phrases into Whitehead-ese throughout, but disregard systems theory except to regard it as ‘overly static’ (56)? What should scholars of STS have learned from this particular set of comparisons between fictional narrative and forms of writing from the scientific disciplines? In the final instance, though, I find this a recommendable, fresh and original work of scholarship, despite the fact that it is more exploratory, and less conclusive, than a typical monograph. Back in the introduction, Shaviro notes that, ‘before it is cognitive, let alone conscious, thought is primordially an affective and aesthetic phenomenon’ (16), a claim that promises to carve out a new kind of place for the affec...
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
... Frankenstein to HG Wells's Martian invaders to the movies' creatures from outer spa... more ... Frankenstein to HG Wells's Martian invaders to the movies' creatures from outer space or the ... a specific historical situation, which, in all cases considered here, takes place under English ... promise of a different return, back to the wholeness of unrepressed, non-alienated libidinal ...
... HAG Home at Grasmere: Part First, Book First, of The Recluse. Ed. Beth Darlington. Ithaca, NY... more ... HAG Home at Grasmere: Part First, Book First, of The Recluse. Ed. Beth Darlington. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977. JTP Thelwall, John. ... Miscellaneous Tracts on Religious, Political, and Agricultural Subjects. 2 vols. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1815. Page 13. ...
... protect the sacred text. For even the sacred text needs to be periodically reconstituted by t... more ... protect the sacred text. For even the sacred text needs to be periodically reconstituted by translation, and each translation likewise reconstitutes the author-ity of the text and redefines its domain. But the symbol's divine etiology ...
Each essay in the issue grapples with problems attending the social and literary construction of ... more Each essay in the issue grapples with problems attending the social and literary construction of personal identities. Juxtaposing life writing and science fiction also suggests that generic identities ought to be grasped as complex social practices that connect discourse and power in a variety of ways.
Afrofuturist fiction proceeds from the position of an enslaved, silenced, subaltern Other within ... more Afrofuturist fiction proceeds from the position of an enslaved, silenced, subaltern Other within the history of the US. It responds by constructing various strategic discontinuities with historical time, including anachronism, apocalypse, and utopia. This talk will survey the use of these narrative strategies in Afrofuturist work by Sun Ra, Octavia Butler, Andrea Hairston, and in the recent anthology of activist science fiction, Octavia's Brood .
... futures are especially basic to science fiction. Evo-lutionary theory and anthropology also s... more ... futures are especially basic to science fiction. Evo-lutionary theory and anthropology also serve as frameworks for the Social Darwinian ideologies that pervade early sciencefiction. The complex mixture of ideas about competition ...
sentience, and do the readings, together, add up to some particular whole? All readers would, I t... more sentience, and do the readings, together, add up to some particular whole? All readers would, I think, have benefited from a conclusion that addressed those questions, and academic readers will also be left with additional questions about method. Why, for example, does Shaviro translate occasional phrases into Whitehead-ese throughout, but disregard systems theory except to regard it as ‘overly static’ (56)? What should scholars of STS have learned from this particular set of comparisons between fictional narrative and forms of writing from the scientific disciplines? In the final instance, though, I find this a recommendable, fresh and original work of scholarship, despite the fact that it is more exploratory, and less conclusive, than a typical monograph. Back in the introduction, Shaviro notes that, ‘before it is cognitive, let alone conscious, thought is primordially an affective and aesthetic phenomenon’ (16), a claim that promises to carve out a new kind of place for the affec...
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
... Frankenstein to HG Wells's Martian invaders to the movies' creatures from outer spa... more ... Frankenstein to HG Wells's Martian invaders to the movies' creatures from outer space or the ... a specific historical situation, which, in all cases considered here, takes place under English ... promise of a different return, back to the wholeness of unrepressed, non-alienated libidinal ...
... HAG Home at Grasmere: Part First, Book First, of The Recluse. Ed. Beth Darlington. Ithaca, NY... more ... HAG Home at Grasmere: Part First, Book First, of The Recluse. Ed. Beth Darlington. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977. JTP Thelwall, John. ... Miscellaneous Tracts on Religious, Political, and Agricultural Subjects. 2 vols. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1815. Page 13. ...
... protect the sacred text. For even the sacred text needs to be periodically reconstituted by t... more ... protect the sacred text. For even the sacred text needs to be periodically reconstituted by translation, and each translation likewise reconstitutes the author-ity of the text and redefines its domain. But the symbol's divine etiology ...
Each essay in the issue grapples with problems attending the social and literary construction of ... more Each essay in the issue grapples with problems attending the social and literary construction of personal identities. Juxtaposing life writing and science fiction also suggests that generic identities ought to be grasped as complex social practices that connect discourse and power in a variety of ways.
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