(P/B) BLACK AND BLUR

Παρουσίαση

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. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Not In Between
2. Interpolation and Interpellation
3. Magic of Objects
4. Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia
5. Taste Dissonance Flavor Escape (Preface to a Solo by Miles Davis)
6. The New International of Rhythmic Feel/ings
7. The Phonographic Mise-en Scene
8. Line Notes for Lick Piece
9. Rough Americana
10. Nothing, Everything
11. Nowhere, Everywhere
12. Nobody, Everybody
13. Remind
14. Amuse-Bouche
15. Collective Head
16. Cornered, Taken, Made to Leave
17. Enjoy All Monsters
18. Some Extrasubtitles for Wildness
19. To Feel, to Feel More, to Feel More Than
20. Irruptions and Incoherences for Jimmie Durham
21. Black and Blue on White. In and And Space
22. Blue Vespers
23. The Blur and Breathe Books
24. Entanglement and Virtuosity
25. Bobby Lee's Hands
Notes
Works Cited
Index