Kodwo Eshun

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Kodwo Eshun
Born1967 (age 56–57)
Southampton University
Occupation(s)Writer, theorist and filmmaker
Hank Shocklee, Paul Miller, Daniel Bernard Roumain at Chelsea Art Museum
, 2005

Kodwo Eshun (born 1967) is a British

Goldsmiths College, University of London, and at CCC Research Master Program of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD
(Geneva University of Art and Design).

Early life and education

Kodwo Eshun was born and raised in the far northern suburbs of London. His father was a prominent diplomat to the United Kingdom. His family is of the Fante people of Ghana, and his younger brother is the author and journalist Ekow Eshun.

As a youth, Eshun undertook a study of comic books,

J. J. Rawlings
.

He studied

Southampton University
.

In his first book, Kodwo Eshun devised a unique page-numbering system, beginning in negative numbers. On page −01[-017], he wrote:

At 17, Kodwo Eshun won an Open Scholarship to read Law at University College, Oxford. After eight days he switched to Literary Theory, magazine journalism and running clubs. He is not a cultural critic or cultural commentator so much as a concept engineer, an imagineer at the millennium's end writing on electronic music, science fiction, technoculture, gameculture, drug culture, post war movies and post war art for The Face, The Wire, i-D, Melody Maker, Spin, Arena and The Guardian.[1]

He later described his decision to pursue music journalism professionally as a

vow of poverty.[2]

Writing

Eshun's writing deals with

cyberculture, science fiction and music with a particular focus on where these ideas intersect with the African diaspora. He has contributed to a wide range of publications, including The Guardian, The Face, The Wire, i-D, Melody Maker, Spin, Arena, Frieze, CR: The New Centennial Review and 032c. As of 2002, he has quit music journalism. He now publishes academically, and teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London, in the Department of Visual Cultures, founded by Irit Rogoff. In the 1990s, he was affiliated with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, a cross-disciplinary research group out of the University of Warwick.[3][4]

More Brilliant Than The Sun

Eshun's book More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction was published in 1998 and is "At its simplest ... a study of visions of the future in music from

afrofuturist
viewpoint.

Architechtronics

Architechtronics is a collaboration by Kodwo Eshun and Franz Pomassl recorded live at the AR-60-Studio (ORF/FM4) Vienna in 1998. Eshun's contribution is the recitation of a text entitled Black Atlantic Turns on the Flow Line which condenses much of the thematic content of More Brilliant Than The Sun.

"Further Considerations on Afrofuturism"

Eshun's article "Further Considerations on Afrofuturism" was published in CR: The New Centennial Review, Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2003. Through this article, he expounds upon the history and trajectory of

Samuel Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
(1984). The essay is currently available in the book, Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism (Strange Attractor, 2022), edited by Roy Christopher.

The Otolith Group

In 2002, Eshun co-founded with

the Turner Prize in 2010 for its project A Long Time Between Suns.[10]

Publications

References

  1. ISBN 0-7043-8025-0
    .
  2. ^ Eshun, Kodwo. "Off The Page 2011: Kodwo Eshun discusses selected paragraphs of music criticism - The Wire". Thewire.co.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  3. ^ Mackay, Robin. "Nick Land: An Experiment in Inhumanism", Divus, 27 February 2013.
  4. ^ Simon Reynolds, 'Reynolds, Simon. "Renegade Academia"', unpublished feature for Lingua Franca, 1999. Accessed 27 December 2014.
  5. ^ Cited in Jeanne Cortiel and Christian Schmidt, "Editorial: (En)Sounding the Future", ACT – Zeitschrift für Musik & Performance 6 (2015), no. 6, p.6.
  6. ^ Eshun, Kodwo. "Further Considerations on Afrofuturism", CR: The New Centennial Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer 2003). 297.
  7. ^ "The Otolith Group". Archived from the original on 22 October 2007. Retrieved 9 September 2007.
  8. ISBN 978-1-84631-014-0
  9. ^ "Tate Channel: "Turner Prize 2010: The Otolith Group"". Channel.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  10. ^ ""Turner Prize 2010 shortlist announced"". Tate.org.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  11. ^ "Post-Punk Then and Now". Repeater Books. 8 April 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2017.

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