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- Title
Lines of Flight: Baseball as Afrofuturist Becoming in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
- Authors
Aude, Richard
- Abstract
This paper deals with the depiction and metaphorical use of baseball and Blackness in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It argues that Deleuze and Guattari's concept of Becoming can be applied to baseball, integrating Afrofuturist understandings of counterfutures as something that influences the transformative process of Becoming. Furthermore, this paper advocates that Becomings help to understand difference as not being based on identity but on time. This paper first elaborates on how Blackness does not fit into imaginations of linear progress that are evoked with the protagonist's use of baseball as an analogy for linear time. Performing a closer examination of Blackness in DS9, this paper highlights how Black memory and future are dealt with in the show. The emphasis of experience is shifted away from a linear progression of time to an understanding of a grid of all possible outcomes of any event, such as a baseball game. Thereby, this paper adds a combination of two frameworks to understanding DS9, Afrofuturism and Becoming, emphasizing that the show allows them to work together, producing insights that invite further research.
- Subjects
BASEBALL; IMAGINATION; BASEBALL competitions; RACIAL identity of Black people
- Publication
Aspeers, 2024, Issue 17, p61
- ISSN
1865-8768
- Publication type
Article