Appropriation refers to the practice of artists using pre-existing objects or images in their art with little transformation of the original. It raises questions of originality, authenticity and authorship, and questions the definition of art itself.
Afrofuturism is a “Speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture—and, more generally, African American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prothetically enhanced future”.
— Mark Dery, 1994, p 180