Articles with tag: futurity

Issue 17
a person wearing a blue trash bag diving head first into a big black trash can
Black ecologies
plastics
colonialism
futurity
disposability
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All That’s Left Behind

Black Ecological Interventions on Waste and Plastic

In Notes on Digging, Kiyan Williams’ poetic meditations on earth, Blackness, transformation, and memory overlay a visual montage of their movements in the creation of Reaching Towards Warmer Suns. Originally constructed on the banks of the James River in Richmond, Virginia, Williams’ captivating three-dimensional installation consists of arcing,…

Issue 15
alternative history
futurity
literary forms
temporality
experiment
science
reproduction
post-human

“There Is No Alternative!”

The Case for a Co(n)temporary English Fiction: Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein

The year is 2019. Amongst heated discussions in the UK Parliament about how to ad-minister a fair deal between the UK and the EU after the Brexit referendum vote in 2016, two of the largest literary voices of our times, Ian McEwan and Jeanette Winter-son, publish their novels about post-human dreams and Other times, namely Machines Like Me and Frankissstein: A Love Story.