André Brock’s Black Technoculture and/as Afrofuturism

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Across
  1. 1. Root quality against which blackness defines itself per Morrison
  2. 5. What you show to situate historical transgressive behavior in the now
  3. 10. The everyday banal aspects that reveal Black futurity in the present
  4. 11. Computational process often embedded with racial bias
  5. 12. Lyotard's term for excess of life in libidinal economy
  6. 15. Perspective that focuses on what Black people supposedly lack technologically
  7. 18. Strategic seizure of material and symbolic power of technology
  8. 19. Type of production when audiences transform solo content through commentary
  9. 20. Walcott's term for highly stylized structure perceived in space
  10. 21. Brock's term for Black futurity grounded in the now
  11. 22. In Afrofuturism blackness becomes this idealized for political fantasies
  12. 23. Dispersed community maintaining connections across geography and time
  13. 26. Fanonian moment of interpellation and phenomenological capture
  14. 28. Everyday folk culture as opposed to high art or elite culture
  15. 29. What libidinal economy recognizes that cannot be reduced to exchange value
Down
  1. 2. What happens after the digital hail not just representation
  2. 3. Fred Moten claims this IS blackness itself
  3. 4. Set of relations between and politics of culture and technology
  4. 6. To inhabit completely the space one has individually per Walcott
  5. 7. Essential element of Black technoculture alongside style
  6. 8. Politics that judge Black tech use by White middle-class standards
  7. 9. Pertaining to excessive life forces and value-laden tensions underlying beliefs
  8. 13. Digital aspect of technoculture enacted through online media
  9. 14. Black discursive practice of indirect playful improvisational language use
  10. 16. Appropriate timely engagement within communicative and cultural context
  11. 17. Status when message is viewed but deliberately not answered
  12. 19. Dialectical release performed through Black Twitter ritual drama
  13. 24. Cultural aesthetic examining Black futures through technology and science fiction
  14. 25. What Brock argues blackness is neither interested in nor striving toward
  15. 27. Type of imagination that performs failure to uplift