Talk:Afrofuturism/Archive 1

message: From a previous version of the article edited by user 68.162.76.55:
The Afro-Futurism zone is a place where the issues that have come to be defined as core aspects of African-American ethnicity and its unfolding in the American disappeared, replaced by a zone of electromagnetic interactions - simulations, coded exchanges of ideology... legacies of displacement translated into the binary space between the algorithms electro-modernity together. Urban culture, transitory flows of identity along the lines of flight demarcated by the streets, the lights, the sounds, the representations that hold it all together.
Although interesting and poetic, this isn't an appropriate and concise definition of Afrofuturism for a Wikipedia article. Knowing the author and source of this text would be useful in discussing how it can integrated in the article. Loremaster 01:06, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Afro-Futurism Zone?

message: Glad to see this here, even if it is only a stub. Would this be an appropriate place to include the Afrofuturist self-presentation of, for example, George Clinton? There was an extremely interesting Afrofuturist contribution to the aesthetic of glam rock, even if white Brits got to "own" the word glam. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:40, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
:Jmable, what do you mean by self-presentation? Loremaster 15:51, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glad to see this here 

message: This article really leaves one unsatisfied wondering just what Afrofuturism is.  OK, so Afrofuturism = African American concerns + Transhumanism, more or less.  So, what does that mean exactly?--Pharos 05:32, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That's why the article is listed as a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. ;) Loremaster 14:41, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Context 

message: I've deleted the following text from the article: 
:The displacement of traditional Black culture in Western culture is mirrored in the way that musicians like Sun Ra and George Clinton have been displaced on planet Earth.
The user who added this text needs to explain how the works of Sun Ra and George Clinton are afrofuturist. He also needs to back up his statements with sources since no original resarch is allowed on Wikipedia.
Futhermore, I've deleted links to articles that don't exist yet such as Blue Light (novel) and Space is the Place. Please create a stub for each of these articles *before* linking them to the Afrofuturism article. --Loremaster 03:45, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent deletions 

message: Does anyone read this Wiki page? If so, what are your thoughts? Please add more content. -- minerva obsidian
:Hello Minerva, I suggest you read the new sign at the top of the page. --Loremaster 16:15, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  news 

message: Is The Ear, the Eye and the Arm an Afrofuturism book?
:Let's add it to the article. If someone comes up with a valid objection, we'll just delete it. --Loremaster 23:41, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Ear, the Eye and the Arm 

message: Not a topic I know much about, but it seems to me that things like Labelle in the mid-'70s belong under this heading. There was a Black side of what was essentially a glam rock sensibility, and it had even more of a sci-fi & futuristic aspect than the pasty Brits. - Jmabel | Talk 05:51, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to mention them in the article. --Loremaster 21:34, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  '70s style 

message: Has anyone considered adding Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force to this page?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dediablo (talk • contribs) 00:24, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Afrika Bambaataa 

message: Anyone agree that Bootsy belongs in this article as well?  Appearance, themes, song/album titles, and of course his "space bass".  Chewyrunt (talk) 19:52, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I would certainly mention him. - Jmabel | Talk 01:20, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bootsy Collins 

message: This edit changed a quotation without citation, but the original quote was uncited, too, and in a paragraph with unbalanced parentheses, and I'm disinclined to even try to work out what's going on. Someone more familiar with the article should have a look. - Jmabel | Talk 01:20, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language / slanguage