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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Janelle Monáe"”.
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Contending With Coloniality Through Speculation, Storytelling, And Sound Performance
… Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, N. K. Jemisin, Janelle Monáe, and Rebecca Sugar, I create narrative vignettes that speculate about how marronage and erotic agency, when enacted by colonized peoples, might support the work of decolonizing our thinking, being, and relating in the world. Through …
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DIRTY COMPUTERS: EROTIC DATA POETICS
… I conclude my analysis by considering how Janelle Monáe and her contemporary singers negotiate control over their surveillance. The entire project uses Monáe’s Dirty Computer (2018) and the dirty computer protagonist Jane 57821 as a theoretical starting point to vision escaping …
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Walking the Tightrope: Selfhood and Speculative Fiction in Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe’s multi-part, multi-media work Metropolis can be read as a speculative fiction text. In my work, I examine the ways in which Monáe uses the structure of her second album The ArchAndroid and the music, lyrics, and dance of her video "Tightrope" to contribute to her underlying …