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Black and blur

Title
Black and blur / Fred Moten.
Author
Moten, Fred
Publication
  • Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Description
xvii, 339 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
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 musicians and artists 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.
Series Statement
  • Consent not to be a single being ; v. [1]
  • Moten, Fred. Consent not to be a single being ; v. 1.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Not in between -- Interpolation and interpellation -- Magic of objects -- Sonata quasi una fantasia -- Taste dissonance flavor escape (Preface to a Solo by Miles Davis)-- The new international of rhythmic feel/ings -- The phonographic mise-en scène -- Liner notes for lick piece -- Rough Americana -- Nothing, everything -- Nowhere, everywhere -- Nobody, everybody -- Remind -- Amuse-bouche -- Collective head -- Cornered, taken, made to leave -- Enjoy all monsters -- Some extrasubtitles for wildness -- To feel, to feel more, to feel more than -- Irruptions and Incoherences for Jimmie Durham -- Black and blue on white. In and And in space -- Blue vespers -- The blur and breathe books -- Entanglement and virtuosity -- Bobby Lee's hands.
Call Number
Sc E 18-296
ISBN
  • 9780822370062
  • 0822370069
  • 9780822370161
  • 0822370166
LCCN
2017024176
OCLC
973795461
Author
Moten, Fred, author.
Title
Black and blur / Fred Moten.
Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Consent not to be a single being ; v. [1]
Moten, Fred. Consent not to be a single being ; v. 1.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc E 18-296
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