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Notes

¹See the city’s official website at www.joburg.org.za

²Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall, “Introduction: Afropolis,” 1.

³Martin J. Murray, City of Extremes, xii.

⁴Ibid., 137.

⁵China Miéville, “Cognition as Ideology,” 242, 244. On the notion of “cognitive estrangement” and on the generic divisions within science fiction more generally, see further Darko Suvin, “Considering the Sense of ‘Fantasy’ or ‘Fantastic Fiction.’”

⁶Murray, City of Extremes, 149.

⁷See Lauren Beukes, “Dark City” and Lisa van Wyk, “City meets Celluloid.”

⁸For a sense of the debate, see for instance http://slipnet.co.za/view/reviews/orford%E2%80%99s-challenge-to-the-genre-snobs/

⁹Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future, 344.

¹⁰Tim Creswell, “Towards a Politics of Mobility,” 164.

¹¹Achille Mbembe, “Esthetics of Superfluity,” 60.

¹²Ibid., 60–2.

¹³See http://www.africandope.co.za/zoocity/

¹⁴Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis, 35–40.

¹⁵On the cultural dimensions and course of kwaito music, see for instance Thokozani Mhlambi, “Kwaitofabulous,” and Gavin Steingo, “South African Music after Apartheid.”

¹⁶Lisa van Wyk, “Lauren Beukes.”

¹⁷For a canonical statement of this point, see Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, 1–54.

¹⁸Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father’s House, 149–5.

¹⁹See Joseph McLaughlin, Writing the Urban Jungle, 1–26.