Critical Black Futures

Philip Butler is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Posthuman Artificial Intelligence Systems at Iliff School of Theology. He is the founder of the Seekr Project, a distinctly Black conversational artificial intelligence with mental health capacities. His work primarily focuses on the intersection of neuroscience, technology, spirituality and race. He is the author of Black Transhuman Liberation Theology: Spirituality and Technology (2019).

1.Introduction.- 2. The Black Futures of W. E. B. Du Bois.-3. A Black Tetratic Future: Blackness and the Age of Hyper-Exponentiation (Hyper-4).- 4.Towards an Afro-Futuristic Feminist Manifesto.- 5. Writing on Dance, Artistic Reframing of Unimagined Bodies.- 6. A Disruptive Visual Respite: Stacey Robinson.- 7. Black Radical Nationalist Theory and Afrofuturism 2.0.-8. Afrofuturism and Black Futurism: Some Ontological and Semantic Considerations.- 9. Super Fluid / Super Black: Translations and Teachings in Transembodied Metaphysics.- 10. Race, Economics, and the Future of Blackness.- 11. Newhampton: A Future Forward(ified) Black City in the United States.