5 documents
Art Criticism
Posted: January 6, 2022
Subjects
Afrofuturism , Afropessimism , Science Fiction, Black Feminism, Blackness
e-flux Announcement
Posted: October 27, 2021
Subjects
Blackness, Afropessimism
Institution
Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (ICA)
Colored People Time
e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 22, 2019
Category
Museums, Race & Ethnicity
Subjects
Afrofuturism , Afropessimism , Decolonization, Exhibition Histories, Temporality, Libraries & Archives
Art Criticism
Posted: December 20, 2017
Category
LGBTQ+, Music, Utopia
Subjects
The Cosmos, Afrofuturism , Afropessimism , Futures, Libraries & Archives, Drugs & Psychedelia, Science Fiction
# 67
Neoliberalism and the New Afro-Pessimism: Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Hyènes
Charles Mudede
We are done. I’m not speaking only about us here in Africa but of humanity, of man. We have sold our soul too cheaply. The feeling I have is that we are done for if we have traded our souls for money.
—Djibril Diop Mambéty
Senegal’s second greatest director, Djibril Diop Mambéty, only made two features. The country’s greatest director, Ousmane Sembène, made eight. Mambéty was born in 1945, Sembène in 1923. Mambéty lived for only fifty-three years, Sembène for eighty-four. It...
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2015
Category
Film, Capitalism, Anthropology & Ethnography
Subjects
Neoliberalism, Afropessimism , Postcolonialism, Death