Kodwo Eshun
Koswo Eshun (UK) is a writer and musician who focuses on black identity and the African diaspora.
Koswo Eshun [foto © Jan Sprij]
Kodwo Eshun won, at seventeen, an Open Scholarship to read Law at University College, Oxford. After eight days he switched to Literary Theory, magazine journalism and running clubs. He is not a cultural critic or cultural commentator so much as a 'concept engineer' writing on electronic music in today's setting of science fiction, technoculture, gameculture, drug culture, post war movies and post war art for I-D, The Wire, The Face, Arena, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit and The Times.
More Brilliant Than The Sun, his first book on sonic fiction, the interface between science fiction and electronic music was published in May 1998 by Quartet Books. Here he assembles an entirely new field of study which he terms sonic fiction: the intersection between science fiction and sound. Kodwo Eshun dismantles the mechanics of the futurhythmachine – the co-evolution of humans and machines.
In V2_'s Machine Times, Eshun published Visions of rhythm in the kinematic pneumacosm of Hype Williams.
He is a course leader of the MA in Aural and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and lectures the Dutch Art Institute at the University of Twente and De Ateliers, Amsterdam and internationally on sonic culture.
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