Theory

Contents

• Cultural Criticism (includes music, literature, art)
• Cyberculture, Science Fiction & Technology

Cultural Criticism (includes music, literature, art)

Aparicio, Frances R.

• Listening to Salsa : Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures

Bailey, Cameron & Sylvie Fortin

• The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
  • "This abudantly illustrated publication looks at three new installations by Montreal artist Ramona Ramlochand and British artist Keith Piper, created for an exhibition at the Ottawa Art Gallery and circulated to Oakville Galleries, the Art Gallery of Windsor and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Fortin addresses the artists' exploration of the complex relationships between bodies, subjectivities, space, architecture, technology, power and knowledge by focussing on the metaphors of travel and urbanity present in their work. Bailey's text relies on the personal narrative to explore the intersection of race, the body and technology. "

Baker, Houston

• Black Studies, Rap and the Academy

Antonio Benitez-Rojo

• The Repeating Island

Brathwaite, Kamau

• Conversations with Nathanial Mackey See also Nathaniel Mackey.

Campbell, Jeremy

• Grammatical Man
  • "A great book... that focuses on the comparative realms of langauge and digital code. In a sense, the notion of African versus non african forms of digital consciousness, to me at least, is a relative moot point: all HUMAN consciousness has elements of these methods of organizing itself as it unfolds out into the world. Whether its the indian systems of songs that were first systematically analyzed and turned into song codes by Panini long ago, or the drum patterns of yoruba and ibo people that one finds resonances in contemporary electronic music culture - there are correspondences. Any attempt to limit the narrative to historic accidents of geography limits the discussion and paves the way for all of the "real world" pathologies that one finds so prevalent in discussions of African American culture." [Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky)]

Chuck D., et al

• Fight the Power : Rap, Race, and Reality

Cooper, Carolyn

• Noises in the Blood : Orality, Gender, and the 'Vulgar' Body of Jamaican Popular Culture

Corbett, John

• Extended Play: Sounding Off From John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein

DuBois, W.E.B.

• The Souls of Black Folk

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

• Figures in Black : Words, Signs and the 'Racial' Self
• The Signifying Monky: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism

Gilroy, Paul

• The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

Harris, Wilson

• History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas
• Selected Essays of Wilson Harris : The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination
  • "He's a difficult writer, politically because he doesn't serve the race in any kind of simple way.... And formally ... Harris is full of a hell of a lot of passive constructions and bewildering narrative double-backs. Check-out Jonestown for examples of this. Still, the brother has been striving to imagine a future of the Americas longer than most of us have been alive and he anticipated the "end of the innocent black subject" and the postructuralist turn in contemporary black cultural politics before the birth of Black Power and the translation of On Grammatology.

  There's an excellent essay on him in Nathaniel Mackey's collection Discrepant Engagement and Antonio Benitez-Rojo discusses him in The Repeating Island. I'm slowly making my way to all the Dutch and Australian writing on him (why dey love him so?). Not much from this hemisphere, from futurists or anyone else." [Peter Hudson]

Hurston, Zora Neale

• Mules and Men

Locke, Alain

• Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Rennaissance and Beyond

McGee, Patrick

• Ishmael Reed and the Ends of Race

Mackey, Nathaniel

• Conversations with Nathanial Mackey See also Kamau Brathwaite.
• Discrepant Engagement

Mingus, Charles

• Beneath the Underdog : His World As Composed by Mingus

Murray, Albert

• The Blue Devils of Nada : A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement
• The Hero and the Blues
• The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy
• South to a Very Old Place
• Stomping the Blues

O'Grady, Lorraine

• The Diptych vs. the Triptych: excerpt from a conversation between Lorraine O'Grady and a studio visitor
• Studies for a 16-Diptych Installation to Be Called "Flowers of Evil and Good"

Pelton, Robert D.

• The Trickster in West Africa : A Study of Mythic Irony and Sacred Delight

Perkins, William Eric

• Droppin' Science : Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture

Potter, Russell A.

• Spectacular Vernaculars : Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism

Reed, Ishmael

• Conversations with Ishmael Reed

Rose, Tricia

• Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

Stovall, Tyler

• Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light

Tate, Greg

• Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America

Thiongo, Ngugi Wa

• Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

Tricky

• "Black Secret Tricknology: Interview by Sean Penman"

Cyberculture, Science Fiction & Technology

Alkalimat, Abdul

• Technological Revolution & Prospects for Black Liberation in the 21st Century

Battle, Stafford & Rey O. Harris

• The African American Resource Guide to the Internet & Online Services
  • See the review by Camille Abrahams, et al.

Benton Foundation

• Losing Ground Bit by Bit: Low Income Communities in the Information Age

Berger, Maurice

• "Race in Cyberspace"

Bowen, Gary

• "DeColores: A Bibliography of Speculative Fiction by People of Color"

Bowen, Michael

• "What It Means To Be Black In Cyberspace"

Brillo editorial board

• "In Bed With the Devil"

Bukatman, Scott

• Terminal Identity : The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction

Cultural Survival Quarterly

• The Internet and Indigenous Groups

Davis, Eric

• Davis, Erik
• "The Collectable Unconscious"
  • "Since I mentioned the old-school reading of our FX culture (ie, as delusionary escapism) with the Hoberman Voice piece, it's only fair to also mention the new-school reading of it (ie, as return to mythic consciousness). There's a Matrix/Star Wars piece, or riff if you like, by Erik Davis in FEED; starts off by recounting a sighting of a Darth Vader doll amidst an art exhibit dealing with Haitian Voudou..." [Ben Williams]
• Techgnosis : Myth, Magic, + Mysticism in the Age of Information

Delany, Samuel

• American Shore : Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction
• Heavenly Breakfast, an Essay on the Winter of Love
• Jewel Hinged Jaw : Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
• Longer Views: Extended Essays
• The Motion of Light in Water : Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1960-1965
• Shorter Views : Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary
• Silent Interviews : On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics : A Collection of Written Interviews

Dery, Mark (ed.)

• Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture
  • Contains interviews with Samuel Delany, Tricia Rose, and Greg Tate.

Disch, Thomas M.

• The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of
  • "As Thomas M. Disch says: 'in the distorting mirror of fantasy, Aliens are Us [whites] by the same dark logic that equates Dr. Jekyll with Mr. Hyde. In the marketing of pop culture, there is little distinction between monsters of supernatural horror and monsters from outer space: Dracula, King Kong, the creature from the Black Lagoon, the denizens of Jurassic Park, and the Giger-inspired aliens of Alien all derive their scariness not so much from their fangs and feral natures as from their resemblance to that scariest monster of all, the Being in the Black Mirror.' Disch uses the notion of this "Being" to expose the underpinnings of alot of the themes that we are dealing with in this symposium--in real life. Fear of the other, fear of different takes on contemporary reality, viral contagion of ideas and cellular information, etc etc etc all point to a plac where the imangination in the 20th century has created some of the most strange engagement with ideas we've seen for centuries." [Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky)]

Gaiter, Leonce

• "Is the Web Too Cool for Blacks?"

Gajjala, Radhika

• "Cyborg Diaspora and Virtual Imagined Community: Studying SAWNET"

Gómez-Peña, Guillermo

• "The Virtual Barrio @ The Other Frontier"

Hall, Martin

• "Africa Connected"
• "Virtual University/Segregated Highway? The Politics of Connectivity"

Hannemyr, Gisle

• "Technology and Pleasure: Considering Hacking Constructive"
  • "If you feel that black invention and re-purposing of technology and our knack for creating synergistic cultural repercussions might have something to do with our afrofuturistics, diiiiig this... The essay talks about hacker ethics and contrasts them with corporate ethics. All our black inventors were hackers." [David Goldberg (aka Mr. Bollweevil)]

Jafa, Arthur

• "69"
• "Like Rashoman But Different: The New Black Cinema"

Kaku, Michio

• A Visitation of Spirits
• Beyond Einstein : The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe
• Hyperspace : A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension
• Visions : How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

Lockard, Joe

• "Virtual Whiteness and Narrative Diversity"

Lichtman, Judy

• "The Cyber Sisters Club: Using the Internet to Bridge the Technology Gap with Inner City Girls"

Lillie, Jonathan

• "Possible Roles for Electronic Community Networks and Participatory Development Strategies in Access Programs for Poor Neighborhoods "

Mason, Eleanor R.

• "Resisting Erase-ism on the Net"

Nakamura, Lisa

• "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet"

Novak, Thomas P. & Donna Hoffman

• "Bridging the Digital Divide: The Impact of Race on Computer Access and Internet Use"

Nichols, Nichelle

• Beyond Uhura : Star Trek and Other Memories

NTIA (National Telecommunications & Information Administration)

• Falling Through the Net II: New Data on the Digital Divide

Oguibe, Olu

• "Forsaken Geographies: Cyberspace and the New World 'Other'"
• "On Digital 'Third Worlds': An Interview"

PANOS

• The Internet and Poverty

Peterson, James

• "Buggin' In and Out: Eye Dialectical Nightmares in Cyberspace"

Plant, Sadie

• Zeros + Ones : Digital Women + the New Technoculture
  • "Plant makes a gendered critique of cyberculture, in part, by locating the origins computational logic in women's weaving." [Alondra Nelson]

Powell, John A.

• "The Multiple Self: Exploring Between and Beyond Modernity and Postmodernity"

Rammellzee

• "Iconic Treatise on Gothic Futurism"

Sallis, James (ed.)

• Ash of Stars : On the Writing of Samuel R. Delaney

Schön, Donald, et al

• High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology

Serexhe, Bernard

• "Deregulation/Globalisation: The Loss of Cultural Diversity?"

Sinker, Mark

• "Black Science Fiction: A Secret Musical History"

Slusser, George E.

• Delany Intersection : Samuel R. Delaney Considered As a Writer of Semi Precious Words

Stephens, C.P.

• A Checklist of Samuel R. Delany

Stites, Janet

• "Black Entrepreneurs Spread the Word About 'Digital Freedom'"

Tal, Kalí

• "Duppies in the Machine, or, Anybody know where I can buy a copy of the UPNORTH-OUTWEST GEECHEE JIBARA QUIK MAGIC TRANCE MANUAL FOR TECHNOLOGICALLY STRESSED THIRD WORLD PEOPLE?"
• "The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: African American Critical Theory and Cyberculture"

Walton, Anthony

• "Technology Versus African-Americans"

Weedman, Jane

• Samuel R. Delany

Zipp, Sandy

• What Color is the Net?

Zurawski, Nils

• "Beyond the global information frontiers: What global concepts ('Weltbilder') are there on the Internet and why?"
• "Culture, Identity and the Internet"
• "Ethnicity and the Internet in a Global Society"
• "Ethnology and the Internet: Remarks on a Relation"
• "What Can the Internet Do? Possibilities and Limits of Negotiating Ethnicity and Resolving Ethnic Conflicts on the Internet"