Nolan Oswald Dennis: Ecliptics Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by KJ Abudu, Alison Coplan, Thato Mogotsi. Text by KJ Abudu, Renée Green, Thato Mogotsi, Zoé Samudzi, Sylvia Wynter, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Calvin Warren, J. Kameron Carter, Panashe Chigumadzi, Santu Mofokeng, Sabelo Ndlovu Gatsheni, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, Karen Barad, Mogobe Ramose, Selby Mvusi, Raafat Majzoub, Masande Ntshanga, Alice Sparkly Kat, la paperson, Quito Swan, Luciana Parisi, Ezekiel Dixon Romaěn. From cosmological diagrams to social activisms, Dennis' methodical interdisciplinary practice visualizes liberation on a universal scale This first monograph on Lusaka-born, Johannesburg-based Nolan Oswald Dennis (born 1988) is inspired by their vision of a "Black consciousness of space," traversed across various realms from fiction, language and astronomy to Black, Indigenous and queer intellectual traditions, considering the planetary conditions for a decolonized future.
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