Kodwo Eshun: An Interview

London-based writer, DJ, and music critic Kodwo Eshun thinks of his science fiction work as “theory on fast forward.” His debut book More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (1999) is a manifesto that espouses alien-ation via technology and machine culture. For Eshun “the key thing to do now is to move into a new field. I’ve stopped calling myself a writer, for the book I’m just going to call myself a concept engineer. What we’re doing is engineering, is grasping fictions, grasping concepts, grasping hallucinations from our own area, translating them into another one, mixing them, and seeing where we go with them.”

Interview by Romi Crawford.

A historical interview originally recorded in 2001.