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Cosmic Comics
Of the many technologies that appear in science fiction, few are as iconic as the jet pack. Despite making appearances in several films and at the opening of the 1984 Olympics, though, it's largely an unrealized dream. It has become a symbol of "the future that refuses to arrive."
Artist Stacey A. Robinson features a jet pack in his collage Cosmic Listening. The artwork depicts a young woman receiving revelation against a galactic backdrop. It's an example of Afrofuturism, in which ideas and images from the African diaspora are set into politically and technologically progressive narratives. |