![]() ![]() And its vengeance is not the fire in the city but the fire in the sky. And this revolution has freed the Dreamers to plunder not just the bodies of humans but the body of the Earth itself. But the Dreamers have improved themselves, and the damming of seas for voltage, the extraction of coal, the transmuting of oil into food, have enabled an expansion in plunder with no known precedent. Once, the Dream’s parameters were caged by technology and by the limits of horsepower and wind. Only in light of the wider Black Panther transmedia universe (the comics authored by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Kendrick Lamar’s soundtrack) does the film’s superhero texture yield to its full Afrofuturist potential: a speculative view of what Achille Mbembe calls the Becoming Black of the world. But the film also tells the fairy tale of an extractive utopia in which technology is second nature, while the exploitation of bodies and ecosystems inherent to its high-tech mining economy remains unseen, much like in an Apple commercial. Abstract: The 2018 film Black Panther (Ryan Coogler) is a spectacular display of Blackness on all levels of its production. ![]()
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