Kodwo Eshun (1968) at 17, won an Open Scholarship to read Law at University College, Oxford. After 8 days he switched to Literary Theory, magazine journalism and running clubs.
He is not a cultural critic or cultural commentator so much as a concept engineer writing on electronic music in today"s setting of science fiction, technoculture, gameculture, drug culture, post war movies and post war art for I-D, The Wire, The Face, Arena, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit and The Times.
More Brilliant Than The Sun, his first book on sonic fiction, the interface between science fiction and electronic music was published in May 1998 by Quartet Books. Here he assembles an entirely new field of study which he terms sonic fiction: the intersection between science fiction and sound.
Kodwo Eshun dismantles the mechanics of the 'futurhythmachine' – the co-evolution of humans and machines.