Though, I’m researching the history of AngloFuturism and I found Kunley didn’t come up with the term AngloFuturism. It was first mentioned in 2012 by a left wing commentator on Twitter. It was seen as an English version of Afrofuturism. So, it started as a literary and arts movement. Then Alice Earendel began using it in 2020. Then Aris and Kunley discovered picked up the same term a few years later.
Thank you for bringing this mistake to my attention. I have amended the introduction to the article where I discuss the origins of the term accordingly.
You had me until the Labour waging "spiritual warfare", and then mentioning Conservative clubs as places of meeting but not working mens clubs or traditional labour clubs, or trade unions. Your view of Anglofuturism is clearly an aristocratic conservative one that doesn't include the industrial working class or our culture. That's fine but won't have much purchase beyond Substack and X. It also won't chime with the majority of self-described Anglofuturists who favour unbridled economic growth and YIMBYism (I'm not one of those - I'm pro-rural life and pro-industrial labour culture/gentle reindustrialisation eg renewables/nuclear, rearmament etc).
I did mention working men's clubs and that they should become more commonplace, & hopefully they will if we return industrial manufacturing to this country. This is not at all an exclusively aristocratic vision of the future, but one that respects private property rights as the cornerstone of a free society, I'm not even aristocratic myself although the article is kind of written in the tone of a slightly dusty 19th century aristocrat for humorous purposes. My vision is really about bringing quality of life up across the whole board of society with the working class benefitting as well. The reason I mentioned British Legion/Conservative clubs is because I'm from the South & these are more common down here than working men's clubs, which are more of an urban/Northern thing in my experience. However the picture that paragraph details is supposed to be the inside of a working men's social club. This is a living document & I'm editing it constantly so any feedback is appreciated.
Great article. Definitely resonates with me.
Though, I’m researching the history of AngloFuturism and I found Kunley didn’t come up with the term AngloFuturism. It was first mentioned in 2012 by a left wing commentator on Twitter. It was seen as an English version of Afrofuturism. So, it started as a literary and arts movement. Then Alice Earendel began using it in 2020. Then Aris and Kunley discovered picked up the same term a few years later.
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Thank you for bringing this mistake to my attention. I have amended the introduction to the article where I discuss the origins of the term accordingly.
You had me until the Labour waging "spiritual warfare", and then mentioning Conservative clubs as places of meeting but not working mens clubs or traditional labour clubs, or trade unions. Your view of Anglofuturism is clearly an aristocratic conservative one that doesn't include the industrial working class or our culture. That's fine but won't have much purchase beyond Substack and X. It also won't chime with the majority of self-described Anglofuturists who favour unbridled economic growth and YIMBYism (I'm not one of those - I'm pro-rural life and pro-industrial labour culture/gentle reindustrialisation eg renewables/nuclear, rearmament etc).
Interesting and thoughtful article nonetheless!
I did mention working men's clubs and that they should become more commonplace, & hopefully they will if we return industrial manufacturing to this country. This is not at all an exclusively aristocratic vision of the future, but one that respects private property rights as the cornerstone of a free society, I'm not even aristocratic myself although the article is kind of written in the tone of a slightly dusty 19th century aristocrat for humorous purposes. My vision is really about bringing quality of life up across the whole board of society with the working class benefitting as well. The reason I mentioned British Legion/Conservative clubs is because I'm from the South & these are more common down here than working men's clubs, which are more of an urban/Northern thing in my experience. However the picture that paragraph details is supposed to be the inside of a working men's social club. This is a living document & I'm editing it constantly so any feedback is appreciated.