First sighting in the wold of THE MEDIUM PICTURE from @ugapress.bsky.social! My friend Peter got his copy today! If you haven't preordered yours, get on it! www.ugapress.org/978082037435...

THE MEDIUM PICTURE is available for preorder now!! ugapress.org/book/9780820...

Okay, and here is the crowdfunding campaign for my next project, which now I guess is going to have to be amazing and foundational and wildly essential and move us all: www.gofundme.com/f/help-nisi-... Help how you can. That's what I'm doing.

Do you remember the last time you heard some good news? As news organizations found out a long time ago, it’s far more lucrative to feed you bad news, to make you resent, rage, and most importantly, react... open.substack.com/pub/roychris...

Do you remember the last time you heard some good news? As news organizations found out a long time ago, it’s far more lucrative to feed you bad news, to make you resent, rage, and most importantly, react... open.substack.com/pub/roychris...

POST-SELF comes out December 2nd from @repeaterbooks.bsky.social! Preorder yours now! 💙📚 #booksky roychristopher.com/post-self/

Unboxing my forthcoming book 'POST-SELF: Journeys Beyond the Human Body'! Out December 2nd from @repeaterbooks.bsky.social! Preorder yours now: roychristopher.com/post-self/

25%-off POST-SELF preorders at @barnesandnoble.com from September 3rd-5th (use code PREORDER25)! Thank you! POST-SELF comes out on December 2nd from @repeaterbooks.bsky.social! #BNPreorder www.barnesandnoble.com/w/post-self-...

I have two books coming out before the end of world: THE MEDIUM PICTURE from @ugapress.bsky.social on 10/15, and POST-SELF from @repeaterbooks.bsky.social on 12/02! Please preorder them. It makes a huge difference in the launch and life of the book. Thank you! 💙📚 #booksky roychristopher.com/books/

EXOCAPITALISM starts from the idea that there is not one, monolithic capitalism, but many capitalisms operating at many scales. It's smaller and more pervasive than diatoms or DNA, yet bigger and more expansive than Cassiopeia and the Capitalocene. roychristopher.substack.com/p/capitalist...

It's @bandcamp.com Friday! #bandcampfriday roychristopher.bandcamp.com/merch/follow...

Asterism Books (@asterismbooks.bsky.social) now carries @impellerpress.com titles, including my short story collection, DIFFERENT WAVES, DIFFERENT DEPTHS! Check them out: asterismbooks.com/product/diff...

For the month of August, I’m taking a break from social media. I’m not mad or anything, I just want to get off the internet treadmill for a bit. I’ll be back in September. Enjoy your selves. P.S. Preorder THE MEDIUM PICTURE, out 10/15 on @ugapress.bsky.social! Thank you! www.themediumpicture.com

As an advocate and an artist, Keith Haring occupied a unique place in the world. He skirted the aesthetics of typical graffiti by drawing thick-lined stick-figure characters and animals dancing and moving, the lines as flexible as their fancies... roychristopher.substack.com/p/unwavering...

Only three more months to go... Preorder your copy now! www.themediumpicture.com

10 writers whom I've read more than 5 books: (my list is definitely longer than 10, so these are off the top of my head) Harlan Ellison Donald Goines Robert Sheckley William Gibson Lauren Beukes Cormac McCarthy Marshall McLuhan Douglas Rushkoff Amos Tutuola Bret Easton Ellis

Of all the technologies we take for granted, electricity has to be near the top of the list... Streaming services still regularly buffer. Pinwheels, hourglasses, ellipses—an entire semiotics of technology’s foibles, failures, and inconveniences... roychristopher.substack.com/p/from-black...

Last day for free shipping from @bookshop.org! 💙📚 #booksky Get Some! bookshop.org/lists/roy-ch...

Last day for 25% off POST-SELF preorders at Barnes & Noble! Get yours! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/post-self-... #BNPreorder 💙📚 #booksky

Hey! From July 8-11, you can get 'POST-SELF: Journeys Beyond the Human Body', which Repeater Books will be publishing in December, it for 25%-off from Barnes & Noble (using code: PREORDER25)! Preorder yours now! Thank you! #BNPreorder 💙📚 #booksky www.barnesandnoble.com/w/post-self-...

Mixtapes—those floppy discs of the boombox and car stereo—facilitated the spread of hip-hop from the South Bronx to far-flung suburbs and small towns. Hiss and pop were as much a part of the experience of those mixes as the scratching and rapping. roychristopher.substack.com/p/escape-fro...

‍🗨️ What happens when you refuse to forget who you are? ✨ A must-read for fans of @OctaviaEButler, @SamuelRDelany, and radical futurists everywhere. 📚 Order now and enter a world where remembering is the most powerful act of rebellion. #sistahscifi #TheMemoryLibrarian

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

Ecologies need diverse species in order to survive. There is a direct correlation between the diversity of species in an ecosystem and its overall health. As its biomes homogenize, the ecosystem edges toward death, falling fallow... roychristopher.substack.com/p/inbreeding...

Happy birthday to the Queen. (photo by Patti Perret)

Friedrich Nietzsche and the posthuman: books by Edgar Landgraf and @dharlanwilson.bsky.social‬ from @uminnpress.bsky.social‬ and ‪@rdspress.bsky.social‬: wellredbear.com/reaching-nie...

I was a frightened child. I would be accosted by a clip or a trailer from a horror movie while watching TV and then freaked out for weeks... I distinctly remember glimpses of Friday the 13th (1980) tormenting my young mind... roychristopher.substack.com/p/its-friday...

I decided to take a break a while back. I haven’t had a drink since March 17, 2017—3,000 days ago today. I can comfortably say that there’s nothing bad about it. I sleep better, dream clearer, and do so much more... roychristopher.substack.com/p/3000-days

Loved this post from last week on the sound and music of David Lynch, and loved seeing @upmississippi.bsky.social's DAVID LYNCH: INTERVIEWS listed in the "Further Reading" section.

Accompanying their stunning, fever-dream visuals, the films of #DavidLynch roar with sound... From visceral, industrial rumbles to crackling near-silence, sound is an aspect of his movies that he valued as much as the images. roychristopher.substack.com/p/of-wands-a...

I'm happy to see this review of Review: Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism (2022), edited by Roy Christopher.

My friend and mentor Dave Allen past away the other day. In tribute, a piece I wrote about him and an interview from 2008. There’s really no way to do his influence justice, but this is all I have. Rest in peace, Dave. You’re already sorely missed. roychristopher.substack.com/p/dave-allen...

Twenty years ago today, we lost one of the funniest voices and best visionaries humanity has ever given us. The odd-angled comedy of Mitch Hedberg remains unparalleled. There’s no way to do him justice, but years ago I attempted to pay tribute to the man: roychristopher.substack.com/p/mitch-hedb...

The 2nd edition of 'The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies' is out! The book includes my essay "The End of an Aura: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Haunting of Hip-Hop," which is the root of several projects I've finished since. Check it out: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... #hiphop #Afrofuturism

My book DEAD PRECEDENTS got a mention in this article about @clppng.bsky.social's non-musical influences on their latest record for @subpop.bsky.social, 'Dead Channel Sky'... (I know I wrote the press release for this record, but I'm still geeking out about it!)

THE MEDIUM PICTURE is available for preorder now!! ugapress.org/book/9780820...

Today marks the six-year anniversary of the publication of my book 'DEAD PRECEDENTS: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future'! In celebration, here are pictures from the book’s release and some information on a related project you may have heard abt: roychristopher.substack.com/p/six-years-... #Afrofuturism

My friend Harry Allen, Hip-Hop Activist and Media Assassin, will be presenting a colloquium on Wednesday, March 12 at noon EST at Harvard University's Hutchins Center. Join us! hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/harbanger #hiphop #hiphopculture #turntablism #Afrofuturism

You don’t know the name Angela Britt, but if you were familiar with the deepest details her story—from runaway to ranch hand—you might recognize her as a dozen or so characters in the novels of Cormac McCarthy... roychristopher.substack.com/p/thoughts-t...

If you read Black books (which you better) here are some must follow accounts! #blackhistorymonth

THE MEDIUM PICTURE final cover reveal! It's happening! Coming this fall from the University of Georgia Press! www.themediumpicture.com Object and image by me, design by Erin Kirk.

I can draw or design you something nice or metal af. HMU.

To celebrate Groundhog Day (and six more weeks of winter), here is a time-loop short story called “Not a Day Goes By” that I wrote in the spirit of the best one of these by the genius that was Harold Ramis: roychristopher.substack.com/p/not-a-day-...

Out this year from Repeater, @roychristopher.com traces a lineage from ancient literature and philosophy, through contemporary music, movies, and television, right up to internet memes. The Grand Allusion is of interest to anyone who wants to understand how pop culture works in the 21st century!

THE GRAND ALLUSION, forthcoming from @repeaterbooks.bsky.social, is of interest to anyone who wants to understand how pop culture works in the 21st century: roychristopher.com/the-grand-al...

Take it from Roy, kids! (You probably don’t have time to read more than one thing today though, it’s really goddamn long, sorry.)

If you read one thing today, make it this piece. If you read more than one thing, make this one of them.

I wrote the press release for the new @clppng.bsky.social record, DEAD CHANNEL SKY, out in March from @subpop.bsky.social!! www.subpop.com/news/2025/01...

feeling profoundly sad, but also so grateful for his genius

I wrote the press release for the new @clppng.bsky.social record, DEAD CHANNEL SKY, out in March from @subpop.bsky.social!! www.subpop.com/news/2025/01...