Stolen Life

Fred Moten

Published by Duke University Press 2018

Stolen Life

Fred Moten

Volume 2 in the series Consent not to be a single being

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822372028

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About this book

In Stolen Life—the second volume in his landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being—Fred Moten engages with the work of thinkers ranging from Kant to Saidiya Hartman, undertaking an expansive exploration of blackness as it relates to black life and the collective refusal of social death.

Author / Editor information

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

Reviews

"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, Moten’s trilogy has reinvented both. . . . In its mixture of theoretical complexity and disarming directness, Moten’s beautifully written trilogy offers the sheer pleasure of art."

-- Lidija Haas Vulture

"My favorite book(s) of 2018 are the three volumes of Fred Moten’s 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

"2018 must go down for me as the year of Fred Moten’s trilogy: Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. You could say they’re 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

"consent not to be a single being, titled after a phrase of Édouard Glissant’s, 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 interdisciplinary–Moten deftly renders discipline beside the point. . . . Taken together, the series amounts to a powerful argument for black study—as 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

"Whether reading his poetry or theory, listening to his lectures, Moten will change how you think about almost everything."

-- Melissa Chadburn Literary Hub

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Knowledge of Freedom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Gestural Critique of Judgment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
3. Uplift and Criminality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
4. The New International of Decent Feelings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
5. Rilya Wilson. Precious Doe. Buried Angel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
6. Black Op Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
7. The Touring Machine (Flesh Thought Inside Out) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
8. Seeing Things Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
9. Air Shaft, Rent Party Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
10. Notes on Passage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
11. Here, There, and Everywhere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
12. Anassignment Letters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
13. The Animaternalizing Call Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
14. Erotics of Fugitivity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
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Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 336

eBook

Published: July 26, 2018
ISBN: 9780822372028