Brazilian Afrofuturism as a Social Technology

Afrofuturism in Brazil operates as a politico-aesthetic subjectivity whose forms of organization intervene in the technoculture of speculative fiction and the rich world’s failure to conceive different possibilities. Operating within the mass-cultural genre system, these communities merge the availability of publishing tools and widespread dissemination of visual and narrative repertoires with the social and political networks honed by their activist predecessors. Considering that Afrofuturism, like other CoFuturisms, has found responses to everyday dystopia or the foreclosure of any other present through solidarity, protest, and resistance, the conjunction of speculative thinking, art, and social activism can be considered a type of social technology or collective “social practice”.