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Bookmark or Share- What Is Afrofuturism? | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian MagazineNearly three decades have passed since the cultural critic Mark Dery coined the term “Afrofuturism,” asking the question: “Can a community whose past has been deliberately rubbed out, and whose...
- Afrofuturism: From the Past to the Living Present | UCLALibrarian and archivist for Los Angeles Communities and Cultures at UCLA Library. One of the movement’s inspirational figures is Octavia E. Butler, an Afrofuturist writer and thinker long before critic Mark Dery coined the term in his 1993 essay “Black to the Future.” Butler was born in Pasadena in 1947.
- Afrofuturism in the Stacks | The Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe term “Afrofuturism” was introduced by scholar Mark Dery in 1993, as a way of defining existing trends that focused on Black literature and 1980s technoculture. But Afrofuturist tendencies have been a part of art, literature, and music almost since the birth of modern science fiction at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
- A New Biography Takes On Edward Gorey, a Stubborn Enigma and ...In “Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey,” the cultural critic Mark Dery explains how Gorey was always looking to pare things down.
- Mark Dery on Edward Gorey, reviewed by Spencer Lee Lenfield ...Mark Dery on Edward Gorey, reviewed by Spencer Lee Lenfield | Harvard Magazine. Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898. Montage. The Memorable Eccentric. An idiosyncratic new biography of Edward Gorey. by Spencer Lee Lenfield. March-April 2019.
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