Afrofuturism, science fiction, and the history of the future

Article Abstract:

Afrofuturism or speculative fiction from the African Diaspora is explored by examining the development of Afrofuturist literature since 1906 in tandem with science fiction as seen in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in which science fictional motifs are used to critique American institutions and practices that erase African American people and their history from the future imaginary. Contemporary Afrofuturist stories show that Afrofuturists assume that in the future race will continue to matter to individual and entire civilizations alike and contribute to the development of science fiction.

Analysis, Works, Science fiction, Ellison, Ralph, African diaspora, Invisible Man (Novel)

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Joaquin Balaguer and contemporary Dominican politics and society

Article Abstract:

An attempt is made to demythologize Joaquin Balaguer by placing his political career in the context of Dominican society past and present. Questions are raised on whether his career was a product of the profound social and political crisis that resulted from the collapse of the Trujillo dictatorship and the subsequent US military intervention of 1965 and whether he really was the father of Dominican democracy or an authoritarian modernizer who did not care much for democratic governance.

Dominican Republic, Political activity, Political aspects, Balaguer, Joaquin, Democratic socialism

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All that melts into air is solid: Rematerializing capital in Cube and Videodrome

Article Abstract:

Cube and Videodrome are films in the cyberpunk tradition and its depiction of cyberspace is best understood as a metaphor for dematerialized, immaterial or friction-free capital-in-circulation. Such films help to see that all that appears to melt into air is solid, still a part of the material world of social relations and in making the materiality of capital visible, these films point to the limitations typical of cyberpunk.

Cyborgs, Cube (Motion picture), Videodrome (Motion picture)

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