Evans - Futurism
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My second project addresses the affective dimensions of contemporary discourses concerning environmental crisis. I'm especially interested in contrasting mainstream environmental rhetoric and academic writing from the environmental humanities with the forms of environmental imagination that Afrofuturism and indigenous futurism offer, and in examining the roles that grief, anger, and humor play in various projections of environmental futures.
EN: It's funny, there's been some conversation of late among various creators from across the black diaspora about Afro-futurism, what it should center, how it should center it. My first encounters with Afro-futurism were as an African-American kind of paradigm. It was specifically the stuff I was reading and engaging with about how we bridge the gap, how we complete the broken histories we didn't have by virtue of the Middle Passage and Jim Crow. It's a tricky thing to trace your past back centuries when you're a black person in the diaspora. Afro-futurism began as a way to imagine ways that we could do that.
Look at Kindred, Octavia Butler's novel, where the main character travels back to the time of her ancestors and imagines what those experiences were like. Butler uses metaphor to examine what it's like to have a gap in your history and what it's like to inherit an identity that has been crafted to demonize you and disenfranchise you. I think Afro-futurism comes as a response to those realities that black people have had to endure over centuries. Priest created a semi-utopia in his version of Wakanda. There was still political churn and upheaval, but it was a land full of possibilities and promises and wonders.
Morgan Geist of innovative house duo Metro Area spins his disco-infused Detroit futurism and Chicago house classics (most recently heard on his Megaprojects One EP) with Have A Killer Time's Justin Miller and Drumpoet Community's Evan Michael.
Evan Vlachos taught as a professor of Sociology and Civil Engineering at Colorado State University, while also working extensively with federal agencies, foreign governments, and international organizations (including the United Nations, UNESCO, and NATO) on international and national water and environmental issues. His interests also included integrated water resources planning and management and social forecasting. The collection documents Vlachos' diverse work and interests in the fields of sociology, futurism, engineering, and water resources. Files include Vlachos' papers and publications, conference attendance, and work with agencies including the National Science Foundation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, European Commission, and UNESCO. Material types include papers, lectures, presentations, correspondence, articles, reports, conference information, external university evaluations, reviews (by and of Vlachos), invitations, yearly activities, and course content. 59ce067264
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