Jayna Brown is professor in the Graduate Program in Media Studies at Pratt Institute. She earned her PhD in American Studies at Yale University. Her areas of research and specialisation include, speculative fictions, music, black expressive cultures, black queer and feminist studies, and our changing media landscape.

I found it insightful reading her studies of spirituality and African-expressive culture as well as also her imaginings of a post-human reality. This book discusses and redefines ‘utopias’ into a something that is measured as a state of being. Her study of ‘Black Utopias’ is built of her theory that due to history of the Black community being excluded from the ‘category as human’ that we, the Black community have created our own way of being and perceiving the universe that differs from belonging to a system. The book also shares ideas of destabilising human supremacy and seeing the power in the untethered state.