Mark Dery
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Afrofuturism n. | 1993 | Black to the Future in South Atlantic Quarterly 92 736 African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture…might, for want of a better term, be called ‘Afrofuturism’.
glitch n. | 2008 | McClellan’s ‘Matrix’ Moment in L.A. Times 7 June 23/2 It is a White House whose solution to every unhappy turn of events—the Iraqi insurgency, Hurricane Katrina, a moribund economy—is to treat it not as a real-world problem requiring a real-world solution but as a glitch in the Matrix, ‘a perception problem’ to be handled with the Message of the Day and the Theme of the Week.
supernormal n. | 1996 | Escape Velocity 289 Snyder spins out an SF scenario in which ‘supernormals’ enhanced with neural prosthetics ‘operate computers, typewriters, or turn on a television set just by using their brains’.