Kodwo Eshun
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“Sun Ra deemed ‘Space is the place’ for the discovery of a self liberated from the earthly weight of prejudices and carnal inequities.” Norment, C. (2007), Pathways to Unknown Worlds, p.23. In this is essay, Aaron Sandhu has analysed and... more
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology
draft only, final version published in The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design, eds. Reynaldo Anderson and Clinton R. Fluker. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
Talk for the 'Re-Wiring The Body' panel as part of the DRIVE-THRU exhibition at Lewisham Art House, curated by Olivia Aherne and Helen Barr.
An inquiry into the shared (Bergsonian) premises of Gilles Deleuze's theory of Time and Kodwo Eshun's understanding of AfroFuturism. While in agreement with Bergson, we will see how Deleuze's and Eshun's theoretical concerns regarding... more
Marcus S. Kleiner, Marvin Chlada (2003), »Tanzen Androiden zu elektronischer Musik? Eine Reise durch das Universum der Sonic Fiction« in: Marcus S. Kleiner, Achim Szepanski (Hrsg.), Soundcultures. Über elektronische und digitale Musik,... more
Enlightenment and colonialism introduced chronopolitical othering of the colonised as the people remaining in the past, the past of the colonisers. This thinking remade temporal categories of the past and the future into spatial ones,... more
[Présenté à la journée d'études "Musique et politique : les pouvoirs du son", EHESS] Quand James Leyland Kirby, alias The Caretaker, sort en 2005 son album "Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia" s’opère un changement dans le rapport... more
In 2015, NASA commissioned the design studio Invisible Creature to produce a series of posters called Visions of the Future that imagines a time at which space travel becomes a form of luxury tourism. From the “mighty auroras” of Jupiter... more
Workshop for the Rhythmanalysis Seminar Series CHASE, Goldsmiths College University of London, 30 May 2017
Talks by Stamatia Portanova, Yi Chen, Pascal Michon, Sunil Manghani, Paola Crespi and Eleni Ikoniadou
AUDINT (short for Audio Intelligence) is an international research unit with a double aim: to conduct both theoretical and artistic experiments at the peripheral zones of sound—such as ultrasonic and infrasonic frequencies—investigating... more
Talk for the Technology Now: Sonic Feminisms Part I event held at the ICA 30 September 2016. To follow the Siren’s song is to disappear into the abyss. The abyss is at the same time silent and source of all sound; deathtrap and delight;... more