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Technically the calendar in what is known as "Nepal" is already ahead--it's the year 2081 there. Artist/Director Subash Thebe Limbu brings us into his world of Adivasi Futurism with a Yakthung (Limbu) vision of sci-fi and worlds to come.

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XLE.LIFE: New Terms 2024 continues with #IndigenousFuturism or #IndigenousFuturisms

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Next on XLE.LIFE's New Terms 2024 list is the very broad arena of Futurisms. I've posted this in two sections so far:

XLE.LIFE: New Terms 2024: Futurisms--Part I: Intro >>

A very brief and loose introduction to futurisms with a similarly loose timeline, in case you've never heard this term in your life!

XLE.LIFE: New Terms 2024: Futurisms--Part II: A List of Emergent Futurisms >>

The more exciting part of the futurisms research--a sprawling, wild list of 235 (and counting) genres of futurisms, including several I've named or predicted. Looking at this list, especially in an array, really makes me feel some type of way. I hope it makes you feel a way also. What a time to be alive.

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XLE.LIFE's New Terms 2024 continues with #desertropism, a term coined by artist Assem A. Hendawi related to how he sees urban and political development happening in Egypt, and a certain kind of Egyptian Futurism. The term is the focus of his video, Everything Under Heaven, which you can watch on Tank.Tv.

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XLE.LIFE's New Terms 2024 are now dripping on the platforms. Next up is Metta, not to be confused with Meta or Mata.

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XLE.LIFE's New Terms 2024 List is now dripping on the platforms...starting with Indofuturism(s) and Desifuturism(s).

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XLE.LIFE presents

XLE.LIVE: #Indofuturism? #Desifuturism?

Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 at 6pm IST (Indian Standard Time) on Zoom

What is Indofuturism or Desifuturism??

We’ve had Afrofuturism, Sinofuturism, and Gulf Futurism recently catch fire in the futurist conversation--one that encompasses culture, concepts and aesthetics, and things are only spreading from there. Post Western Futurisms, Ecofuturisms, Holistic Futurisms, Tropical Futurisms...Whether you love or hate these kinds of buzzwords, they do put something on the map.

Where is Indofuturism or Desifuturism in all this?

As an emerging set of terms, these words grapple with the subcontinent’s erupting potency on the world stage, in global flows of soft power and hard power alike, and its role in developing new possibilities.

XLE.LIFE invites a group of creative and cultural producers to take these terms into the arena with their own understandings, critiques and visions. The audience will be invited to submit questions.

Facilitated by Kai (Kari) Altmann and Naveen Shamsudhin for XLE.LIFE Language: English

Zoom Link Meeting ID: 662 0509 9121Passcode: 734332

Speakers:

Prateek Arora (Mumbai) AI and Fiction Creator, VP of Development at BangBang Media (Films), Indofuturist, Horror Fan and promoter of Indian Sci-Fi. Recently featured by India Art Fair, National Gallery of Modern Art, XLE.LIFE, Homegrown.in and WePresent. Based in Mumbai.

Naveen Shamsudhin (Zurich) PhD in Robotics, Systems Thinker, Multi-Cultural Community Builder, Hacker, Lecturer at ETH Zurich. Somatics Facilitator. From India, UAE and Switzerland. Based in Zurich. Co-founder and Curator of Kaleido, Humane Warriors, The Origin AG.

Kai Altmann aka Hitashya (Mumbai) Artist, Director, Musician, Performer and Holistic Futurist. Editor of XLE.LIFE. Curator of New World Playlist, R-U-In?S, Garden Club and more. Creator of too many memes, neologisms and microgenres. Has worked on films, music videos, live performances, mega installations, talks and social-cultural initiatives around the world, featured by places like Serpentine Gallery, The New Museum, ICA London, Goethe Institute, EFlux, Biennial of the Americas and many others. Based in Mumbai/Goa since Co-Vid times!

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XLE.LIFE NEW TERMS 2026: Aerotropolis

Largely promoted by Riyadh, the city in Saudi Arabia which plans to open the largest international airport by 2030, an Aerotropolis is a city or urban area developed entirely around an airport. Existing aerotropolis hubs include Schiphol in Amsterdam, CDG in Paris and Incheon in Seoul. Dubai South is also developing its Al Maktoum airport and surrounding areas to takeover and expand from DXB airport by 2035. Aerotropolis contrasts and overlaps with ideas of an Aerocene, both forms of Skyworld Futurisms which look at development as an upward expansion into the atmosphere and air-enabled mobility.