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Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction: A Conversation about Indigenous Futurisms
Grace Dillon and Pedro Neves Marques
In terms of the future, my Anishinaabemowin language has a word, kobade—a very small word, but in reality an extremely sophisticated concept. The idea is that everything that’s in the past and the future is also in the now, but it’s not as simplistic as that. It’s more like there exists a spiral of intergenerational connections, so that even if you are in the present you have spirit persons at your side; they can be ancient spirits, considered to be from the past or from the future. Kobade is the recognition of all persons, not just human persons, and of all the intergenerational connections that we have, which are never linear, but spiral.
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 8, 2021
Category
Indigenous Issues & Indigeneity, Literature
Subjects
Science Fiction, Science