The Future Stared Back at Us for the First Time: Black Holes Revisited

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Notes

1. See Mark Dery, ‘Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose’, in Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture, ed. Mark Dery (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994); and Ytasha L. Womack, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2013).

2. Follow the link to the final performance track and please listen either while reading or separately another time, https://soundcloud.com/xa8na/black-holes-sound-design (accessed October 14, 2020).

3. For a detailed analysis of the race construct and how ‘oids’ paved the way for continued lawmaking which disenfranchised Black and indigenous populations, see the work and teachings of social justice activist Michelle Johnson; specifically, her Dismantling Racism short course, https://otmtraining.offthematintotheworld.org/p/dismantling-racism-course-recording-2020 (accessed September 22, 2020).

4. A full copy of the Black Holes text is available: https://issuu.com/blackholesproject/docs/black_holes_text.