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The Universal Machine Fred Moten

The Universal Machine By Fred Moten

The Universal Machine by Fred Moten

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In the concluding volume to his landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being Fred Moten uses the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, and Franz Fanon to explore the relationship between blackness and phenomenology, theorizing blackness as a way of being in the world that evades regulation.

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The Universal Machine by Fred Moten

"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 The Universal Machinethe concluding volume to his landmark trilogy consent not to be a single beingFred Moten presents a suite of three essays on Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, and Frantz Fanon, in which he explores questions of freedom, capture, and selfhood. In trademark style, Moten considers these thinkers alongside artists and musicians such as William Kentridge and Curtis Mayfield while interrogating the relation between blackness and phenomenology. Whether using Levinas's idea of escape in unintended ways, examining Arendt's antiblackness through Mayfield's virtuosic falsetto and Anthony Braxton's musical language, or showing how Fanon's form of phenomenology enables black social life, Moten formulates blackness as a way of being in the world that evades regulation. Throughout The Universal Machineand the trilogy as a wholeMoten's theorizations of blackness will have a lasting and profound impact.

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"It's this spirit of the collective effort of study and exchange and resonance, the effort to keep the channels open and keep listening, that has made Moten (or, maybe, 'Moten/s') such a celebrated thinker. At the end of sentences like these, you want to say something like Amen." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *
"At a time when both theory and criticism are frequently and convincingly attacked as exhausted forms, Motens trilogy has reinvented both. . . . In its mixture of theoretical complexity and disarming directness, Motens beautifully written trilogy offers the sheer pleasure of art." -- Lidija Haas * Vulture *
"2018 must go down for me as the year of Fred Motens trilogy: Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. You could say theyre essays about art, philosophy, blackness, and the refusal of social death, but I think of them more as a fractal universe forever inviting immersion and exploration, a living force now inhabiting my bookshelf." -- Maggie Nelson * Bookforum *
"My favorite book(s) of 2018 are the three volumes of Fred Motens consent not to be a single being, individually titled Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. In this collection of essays stretching back fifteen years, Moten challenges the reader to imagine a radically interconnected aesthetic and political sphere that stretches from Glenn Gould to Fanon to Kant to Theaster Gates, sometimes in the space of a single sentence. This trilogy is one of the great intellectual adventures of our era." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *
"consent not to be a single being, titled after a phrase of Edouard Glissants, ranges across an impressive number of disciplines: black studies, performance studies, aesthetics, phenomenology, ontology, ethnomusicology, jazz history, comparative literature, critical theory, etc. Without announcing its intervention as interdisciplinaryMoten deftly renders discipline beside the point. . . . Taken together, the series amounts to a powerful argument for black studyas an analytic, an impetus, a mode, the collective shout from a radical vista, whose bellow requires nothing less than 'passionate response' (Moten 2003)." -- Mimi Howard * boundary 2 *

About Fred Moten

Fred Moten is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and the author of Black and Blur and Stolen Life, both also published by Duke University Press, and In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Preface ix
1. There Is No Racism Intended 1
2. Refuge, Refuse, Refrain 65
3. Chromatic Saturation 140
Notes 247
Works Cited 271
Index 281

Additional information

NGR9780822370550
9780822370550
0822370557
The Universal Machine by Fred Moten
Fred Moten
consent not to be a single being
New
Paperback
Duke University Press
2018-08-06
312
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