Icarus in Reverse | Black Quantum Futurism, The Black Atlantic & Autoethnography

Описание: Tonight I read from my draft prose work Icarus in Reverse — a hybrid text combining research, autoethnography, and creative nonfiction.

This reading explores:

– Black Quantum Futurism
– Black aesthetic philosophy
– Nonlinear and cyclical temporalities
– The Black Atlantic
– Migration and precarity
– Grief, addiction, and survival
– Motherhood as resistance
– Afrofuturity as lived practice

Black Quantum Futurism, founded by Moor Mother and Rasheedah Phillips, challenges linear conceptions of time and space by centering African diasporic experience, speculative thought, and quantum theory.

In this piece, I move between:

– The historical voice of Olaudah Equiano
– Contemporary migrant housing precarity in Berlin
– The metaphor of Icarus
– The symbolic presence of Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender
– Black maternal ritual as protection and aesthetic intervention

00:00 Introduction
00:33 What Is Black Quantum Futurism?
02:54 Black Aesthetic Philosophy & Resistance
03:53 Birth: In Medias Res
06:01 The Black Atlantic & Equiano
09:00 Glasgow / Berlin / The Greenhouse
11:36 Death & Precarity
16:12 Icarus & The Fall
19:02 Ritual, Hair & Protection
23:31 Afrofuture & The Slave Ship
24:03 Closing Reflection

This is a draft reading. I will be editing and returning with a revised version.

I am recording every single day.

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Chandra Brooks
Artist | Researcher | The Universal Fairytale