![]() ![]() One piece of this is her interest in framing ourselves as “future ancestors.” I am struck by this phrase, with its time travel implications. ![]() Woven throughout her work are two things: 1) a coherent visionary exploration of humanity and 2) emergent strategies for being better humans.īrown’s work likewise asks us to orient ourselves towards the future. Octavia wrote novels with young Black women protagonists meeting aliens, surviving apocalypse, evolving into vampires, becoming telepathic networks, time traveling to reckon with slave-owning ancestors. In particular, Brown draws on the work of Octavia Butler, whose science fiction dramatized the present moment by extending it into the future (p17): I would call our work to change the world “science fictional behavior” - being concerned with the way our actions and beliefs now, today, will shape the future, tomorrow, the next generations. This futurism draws deliberately on the imaginative possibility of science fiction, as she writes in Emergent Strategy (p16): p14.Īdrienne Maree Brown’s work is oriented towards the future. Adrienne Maree Brown (2017) Emergent Strategy. ![]()
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