Rasheedah Phillips > Quotes

“actually constraints of the worldview and epistemology of Eurocentrism itself, rather than artifacts of universal time and that therefore Africacentered scholars, applying a perspective external to that limited framework can say much more in terms of the potential for traversing presumed barriers of the space-time matrix.”
― Rasheedah Phillips, Black Quantum Futurism Theory & Practice Vol. 1

“Futurism, alternatively known as futurology and future studies, refers to the act of theorizing or envisioning possible, probable, and preferable future(s). Much in the way that historical studies seeks to tell stories of the past (or some approximation to the past, as experienced by a privileged few), futurism attempts to not only envision what is to come, but to understand what about the world is likely to continue, and what about the world could plausibly change. Futurism seeks a systematic and pattern-based understanding of past and present, and to determine the likelihood of future events and trends. The most relevant practice and theory of "futurism" for the purposes of BQF Theory and Practice is Afrofuturism. Afrofuturistic concepts of sci-fi, fantasy, myth, and speculation bind both the past and future, delivering them to a Now in visual, literary, musical terms (and any other mode of expression that one sees fit to attach the Afrofuturistic lens to). Afrofuturism is visionary and retrospective and current all at once, in that it recognizes that time cycles, spirals, or can be experienced in many other shapes, and at varying rates.”
― Rasheedah Phillips, Black Quantum Futurism Theory & Practice Vol: II

“Mia had never opened the box because the choice of whether to open it or not was the only thing she felt she ever really had control over.”
― Rasheedah Phillips, Recurrence Plot:

“It encompasses the Blackness or darkness that permeates mental space and inner space. It refers to the light absorbing darkness of melanin, and the speed of darkness which surpasses that of light by not needing to move at all.”
― Rasheedah Phillips, Black Quantum Futurism Theory & Practice Vol. 1

“Memory, like light, wraps itself around all objects in a room. Each object and item is recording the space-time event from its own perspective. In order to reconstruct a space-time event, you would have to get the memory from each object to build up the scene. Like a Scavenger hunt.”
― Rasheedah Phillips, Recurrence Plot:

“political forces to erase Black history, limit our futures, and confine us to narrow, inadequate instances”
― Rasheedah Phillips, Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time