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Ancestrofuturism: Enchantment, Confluence, Vital Energy, and Living Writing

In this Case Study, Afro-Brazilian oral and literary traditions are introduced to an English-speaking audience through the lens of ancestrofuturism—a framework that bridges ancestral wisdom and future imaginaries—to demonstrate how Afro-Indigenous cosmologies resist necropolitical violence by redefining temporality, culture, and identity. Through the prism of Ailton Krenak’s ancestrofuturism, this Case Study examines the film Bacurau…

Provenance-by-Design for Humanities Databases

This insight uses gender data as a case study to examine practices of representing provenance information in digital humanities databases. It argues that, in the development of FAIR-compliant database systems, the emphasis on reusability and interoperability should not overshadow interpretability. This insight suggests that a “provenance-by-design” approach should be used by digital humanities projects, researchers,…

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Framing Epic: The Night-Raid as Narrative Theory

Narrative theory developed in relation to the modern Western novel, although its insights have been productively applied to all sorts of objects. This response proposes a narratological account of Western epic on two levels: it seeks to understand this pre-modern genre from a narratological perspective, and it also reads epic as articulating its own discursive…

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