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In “Fur­ther Con­sid­er­a­tions on Afro­fu­tur­ism” (2003), Kodwo Eshun intro­duces the con­cept of ‘coun­ter­future’. He argues that this con­cept is a nec­es­sary, yet lack­ing coun­ter­part to that of ‘coun­ter­mem­ory’. The prac­tice of coun­ter­mem­ory aims to com­pen­sate for past vio­lence and destruc­tion by writ­ing the sto­ries of (oppressed) minori­ties into main­stream accounts of his­tory. While Eshun sym­pa­thizes with [...]