Flexner Lectureship
Fred Moten, a leading scholar in the fields of Black studies and critical theory, with special concern for the entanglement of social movement and aesthetic experiment, will hold the 2020 Mary Flexner Lectureship at Bryn Mawr College. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in October 2020. While in virtual residence at Bryn Mawr, Moten will deliver three public lectures on his new work.
For complete information about The Mary Flexner Lectureship and to register, please visit www.brynmawr.edu/flexner/
All That Beauty
B Jenkins
The first and last poems in the collection are explicitly devoted to Moten's mother; the others relate more obliquely to her life and legacy. They invoke performers, writers, artists, and thinkers including not only James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, Frederick Douglass, Billie Holiday, Audre Lorde, Charlie Parker, and Cecil Taylor, but also contemporary scholars of race, affect, and queer theory. The book concludes with an interview conducted by Charles Henry Rowell, the editor of the journal Callaloo. Rowell elicits Moten's thoughts on the relation of his poetry to theory, music, and African American vernacular culture.
Black and Blur (Consent Not to Be a Single Being)
Feel Trio
***National Book Award Finalist, 2014
In the Break
Little Edges
Service Porch
Stolen Life (Consent Not to Be a Single Being)
Undercommons
This is a powerful book, made of words and sounds, crisscrossed by subversion and love, written and studied 'with and for, ' as Stefano Harney and Fred Moten put it. The roar of the battle is never distant while reading THE UNDERCOMMONS. The London riots and occupy, practices of refusal, marronage and flight, slave revolts and anti-colonial uprisings frame a challenging rethinking of concepts such as policy and planning, debt and credit, governance and logistics. THE UNDERCOMMONS is a homage to the black radical tradition, to its generative and constituent power before the task of imagining 'dispossessed feelings in common' as the basis of a renewed communism.--Sandro Mezzadra
What kind of intervention can cut through neoliberal configuration of today's university, which betrays its own liberal commitment to bring about emancipation? THE UNDERCOMMONS is a powerful and necessary intervention that invites us to imagine and realise social life otherwise. In this intimate and intense example of affected writing--writing which is always already other, with an other--Harney and Moten dare us to fall. Following, feeling, an other possible manner living together, or as one may say with Glissant--to be 'born into the world, ' which is the fate and gift of blackness. Otherwise living, as in the quilombos created by Brazilian slaves, is the promise that is escape!--Denise Ferreira da Silva