Blacknology. Black Literature, Culture, and Technology

Abstract

Blacknology explores the complex ties between black literature, culture, technology, and identity over the past forty years. This period has been marked by rapid technological change – drum machines, mobile phones, the Internet, and AI – and we connect this technology with theories on race and progress from the last two centuries. The book examines case studies from British and American contexts, considering how cultural figures such as Sun Ra, Alvin Toffler, Octavia E. Butler, Gil Scott-Heron, Benjamin Zephaniah, the “Belleville Three”, Nnedi Okorafor, David Blandy, and Larry Achiampong engage with these themes across media in different ways