Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismMixology"But we all have identities," he told me. I heartily agree. But the two of us meant that phrase in different ways. My friend meant we have one. I meant we have many. I hope I'm right. If identities are--is?--all mixed up, then maybe we can remix them. [1] If you have only one, it seems to me you're stuck. Stuck by the pin of your oppressors to a timeline they've determined. I see Equiano as one of the early practitioners of identity. He samples earlier writers to produce a new mix. He remixes identity. He creates himselves anew. [2] That's the insurgent force of mixology, an art of the future. Notes1. As Kodwo Eshun describes in More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (London: Quartet, 1998). 2. So I once argued in "The Afro Futurism of DJ Vassa," European Romantics Review 16 (2005): 181-92. Navigation |