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Roy Christopher (born 1970) is an American media theorist, writer, author, poet, and illustrator. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin where he did his dissertation on the use of allusions in rap lyrics.[1] Dan Hancox at The Guardian described his book Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future (Repeater Books, 2019) as "Written with the passion of a zine-publishing fan and the acuity of an academic (he is both), Christopher explores the idea of hip-hop as 'black cyberpunk'."[2]

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Selected articles

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  • "Mining Affordances[3]," The Henry Ford Magazine, Summer/Fall, 2024.
  • "Ballard from Beyond: Six of the Famed Author's Redefinitions[4]," bOING bOING, April 29, 2024.
  • "The Whale-Wide Web of Undersea Song[5]," bOING bOING, April 24, 2024.
  • "Literary Allusion Runs Deep Through the History of Hip-Hop[6]," Literary Hub, March 18, 2019.
  • "Dead Precedents: How Hip Hop Hacked The Future[7]," The Quietus, March 17, 2019.
  • "Could the Cities of the Future Take the Form of a Digital Swarm?[8]," Steven Johnson's How We Get to Next, April 21, 2016.
  • "Herc Your Enthusiasm 23: Ice-T's "The Coldest Rap"[9]," HiLoBrow, August 28, 2013.
  • "Mitch Hedberg: Different Ingredients[10]," Vulture (website), March 1, 2013.

Books

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  • The Medium Picture. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press (forthcoming 2025)[11]
  • The Grand Allusion, London, UK: Repeater Books (forthcoming 2025).
  • Different Waves, Different Depths: Stories. Portland, OR: Impeller Press (September 2023)[12]
  • Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism. Editor. London: Strange Attractor/The MIT Press (September 2022).[13]
  • Escape Philosophy: Journeys Beyond the Human Body. Santa Barbara, CA: punctum books (July 2022).[14]
  • Follow for Now, Vol. 2: More Interviews with Friends and Heroes. Editor. Santa Barbara, CA: punctum books (September 2021).[15]
  • Abandoned Accounts: Poems. London: First Cut Poetry (July 2021).
  • Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future. London, UK: Repeater Books (March 2019).[16]
  • Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture. Assistant Editor. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (May 2008).[17]
  • Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes. Editor. Seattle, WA: Well-Red Bear (February 2007).

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