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Overview"""Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis.""-Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination In Black and Blur-the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy consent not to be a single being-Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life. In these interrelated essays, Moten attends to entanglement, the blurring of borders, and other practices that trouble notions of self-determination and sovereignty within political and aesthetic realms. Black and Blur is marked by unlikely juxtapositions: Althusser informs analyses of rappers Pras and Ol' Dirty Bastard; Shakespeare encounters Stokely Carmichael; thinkers like Kant, Adorno, and Jose Esteban Munoz and artists and musicians including Thornton Dial and Cecil Taylor play off each other. Moten holds that blackness encompasses a range of social, aesthetic, and theoretical insurgencies that respond to a shared modernity founded upon the sociological catastrophe of the transatlantic slave trade and settler colonialism. In so doing, he unsettles normative ways of reading, hearing, and seeing, thereby reordering the senses to create new means of knowing." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Fred MotenPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780822370161ISBN 10: 0822370166 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 08 December 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xv 1. Not In Between 1 2. Interpolation and Interpellation 28 3. Magic of Objects 34 4. Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia 40 5. Taste Dissonance Flavor Escape (Preface to a Solo by Miles Davis) 66 6. The New International of Rhythmic Feel/ings 86 7. The Phonographic Mise-en Scène 118 8. Line Notes for Lick Piece 134 9. Rough Americana 147 10. Nothing, Everything 152 11. Nowhere, Everywhere 158 12. Nobody, Everybody 168 13. Remind 170 14. Amuse-Bouche 174 15. Collective Head 184 16. Cornered, Taken, Made to Leave 198 17. Enjoy All Monsters 206 18. Some Extrasubtitles for Wildness 212 19. To Feel, to Feel More, to Feel More Than 215 20. Irruptions and Incoherences for Jimmie Durham 219 21. Black and Blue on White. In and And Space 226 22. Blue Vespers 230 23. The Blur and Breathe Books 245 24. Entanglement and Virtuosity 270 25. Bobby Lee's Hands 280 Notes 285 Works Cited 317 Index 329ReviewsIn this profound work, Fred Moten makes a sustained and thrilling attempt to think philosophy and music together, which is also to think philosophy as music, which is also necessarily to think music as philosophy. In its capaciousness and in its persistent, challenging, dazzling intelligence, Black and Blur is a book that is worthy of the reputation and influence of its author. Its publication is a major event. --Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination Simply put, Moten is offering up some of the most affecting, most useful, theoretical thinking that exists on the planet today.... Moten's work makes the activities of reading and thinking feel palpably fresh, weird, and vital. -- Maggie Nelson * 4Columns * Poetry and philosophy can't convincingly be condensed or speeded up. To feel each fully they must be read and sounded in time. Such is the case with Fred Moten's words. Black and Blur allows and opens this feeling-mind-sense-body splitting possibility, in its stunning and generative appositionality of aesthetics and life. An intertwined, journeying flight, examining and composing variegations distinctly, yet together placed to read and imbibe. Beautiful, sobering, intricately pleasurable, delicious, and necessary as a way to now begin again delving into the specific immense variegated borderless blur of black that is profound, wide, and bittersweet. -- Renee Green, artist, filmmaker, and author of * Other Planes of There * In this profound work, Fred Moten makes a sustained and thrilling attempt to think philosophy and music together, which is also to think philosophy as music, which is also necessarily to think music as philosophy. In its capaciousness and in its persistent, challenging, dazzling intelligence, Black and Blur is a book that is worthy of the reputation and influence of its author. Its publication is a major event. -- Brent Hayes Edwards, author of * Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination * In this profound work, Fred Moten makes a sustained and thrilling attempt to think philosophy and music together, which is also to think philosophy as music, which is also necessarily to think music as philosophy. In its capaciousness and in its persistent, challenging, dazzling intelligence, Black and Blur is a book that is worthy of the reputation and influence of its author. Its publication is a major event. -- Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination In this profound work, Fred Moten makes a sustained and thrilling attempt to think philosophy and music together, which is also to think philosophy as music, which is also necessarily to think music as philosophy. In its capaciousness and in its persistent, challenging, dazzling intelligence, Black and Blur is a book that is worthy of the reputation and influence of its author. Its publication is a major event. -- Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination Poetry and philosophy can't convincingly be condensed or speeded up. To feel each fully they must be read and sounded in time. Such is the case with Fred Moten's words. Black and Blur allows and opens this feeling-mind-sense-body splitting possibility, in its stunning and generative appositionality of aesthetics and life. An intertwined, journeying flight, examining and composing variegations distinctly, yet together placed to read and imbibe. Beautiful, sobering, intricately pleasurable, delicious, and necessary as a way to now begin again delving into the specific immense variegated borderless blur of black that is profound, wide, and bittersweet. -- Renee Green, artist, filmmaker, and author of Other Planes of There Poetry and philosophy can't convincingly be condensed or speeded up. To feel each fully they must be read and sounded in time. Such is the case with Fred Moten's words. Black and Blur allows and opens this feeling-mind-sense-body splitting possibility, in its stunning and generative appositionality of aesthetics and life. An intertwined, journeying flight, examining and composing variegations distinctly, yet together placed to read and imbibe. Beautiful, sobering, intricately pleasurable, delicious, and necessary as a way to now begin again delving into the specific immense variegated borderless blur of black that is profound, wide, and bittersweet. -- Renee Green, artist, filmmaker, and author of * Other Planes of There * In this profound work, Fred Moten makes a sustained and thrilling attempt to think philosophy and music together, which is also to think philosophy as music, which is also necessarily to think music as philosophy. In its capaciousness and in its persistent, challenging, dazzling intelligence, Black and Blur is a book that is worthy of the reputation and influence of its author. Its publication is a major event. -- Brent Hayes Edwards, author of * Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination * Author InformationFred Moten is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and the author of B Jenkins, also published by Duke University Press, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, and coauthor of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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