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  • In The Break

    The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition

    by Fred Moten ...
    Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politicsIn his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on “The Burton Greene Affair, ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Little Edges

    by Fred Moten ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship (2016)The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten's experiments in what he calls "shaped prose"—a way of arranging prose in rhythmic blocks, or sometimes shards, in the interest of audio-visual patterning. Shaped prose is a form that works the "little edges" of lyric and discourse, and radiates out into the space between them. As ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • The Universal Machine

    by Fred Moten ...
    Series Book [5. 3] - consent not to be a single being
    "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 ImaginationIn The Universal Machine—the concluding volume to his landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being—Fred ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Stolen Life

    by Fred Moten ...
    Series Book [5. 2] - consent not to be a single being
    "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 ImaginationIn Stolen Life—the second volume in his landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being—Fred Moten ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Black and Blur

    by Fred Moten ...
    Series Book [5. 1] - consent not to be a single being
    "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 ImaginationIn Black and Blur—the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy consent not to be a single being ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Infrastructural Critique

    Contemporary Art Between Reproduction and Abolition

    by Marina Vishmidt, Stefano Harney, Fred Moten ...
    A theory of art and infrastructure by one of her generation’s most brilliant critical theoristsAs we search for a life beyond capital, the dream that galleries and museums can function as a refuge from existing social relations appears less credible by the day. In response, Infrastructural Critique proposes a new materialist counterpraxis. By treating contemporary art institutions as a site of ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Nocturnals

    by Diane Ackerman, Martine Bellen, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Mary Caponegro, Brian Evenson, Peter Gizzi, Robert Kelly, Ann Lauterbach, Norman Manea, Dinaw Mengestu, Rick Moody, Karen Russell, Joanna Scott, David Shields, Peter Straub, Fred Moten, Quincy Troupe ...
    Series Book 72 - Conjunctions
    This spring 2019 edition of Bard College's literary journal explores the fascination and mystery of night through stories, poems, essays, and memoirs.Scheherazade famously spun stories for a thousand and one nights in order to sustain her life. In recognition of how vital it is to voice our own stories, the stellar works collected here—including entries by Sallie Tisdale, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • B Jenkins

    by Fred Moten, Charles McGovern, Josh Kun ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet’s mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, improvisation, and the black radical aesthetic and political tradition. In Moten’s verse, the arts, scholarship, ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • A Black Intellectual's Odyssey

    From a Pennsylvania Milltown to the Ivy League

    by Martin Kilson, Stefano Harney, Fred Moten ...
    In 1969, Martin Kilson became the first tenured African American professor at Harvard University, where he taught African and African American politics for over thirty years. In A Black Intellectual's Odyssey, Kilson takes readers on a fascinating journey from his upbringing in the small Pennsylvania milltown of Ambler to his experiences attending Lincoln University—the country's oldest HBCU—to ... Read more

    $37.39 CAD

  • 21 | 19

    Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive

    Edited by Alexandra Manglis, Kristen Case ...
    Essays on the modern relevance of Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson, and more "suggest the ways poetry might be both agitator and balm in times of social crisis" ( Poets & Writers).The nineteenth century is often viewed as a golden age of American literature, a historical moment when national identity was emergent and ideals such as freedom, democracy, and individual agency were promising, even if ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Black Register

    by Tendayi Sithole, Fred Moten ...
    Series series Critical South
    How can thinkers grapple with the question of the human when they have been dehumanized? How can black thinkers confront and make sense of a world structured by antiblackness, a world that militates against the very existence of blacks?These are the questions that guide Tendayi Sithole’s brilliant analyses of the work of Sylvia Wynter, Aimé Césaire, Steve Biko, Assata Shakur, George Jackson, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Performances of Spiral Time

    by Leda Maria Martins ...
    Translated by Bruna Barros, Jess Oliveira ...
    Series series Dissident Acts
    In Performances of Spiral Time, famed Afro-Brazilian thinker Leda Maria Martins theorizes forms of African and African diasporic temporality, corporeality, and space that exist apart from and critique Eurocentric notions of linear time. Martins introduces the notion of “spiral time”—curved and recurrent temporalities materialized in Black corporealities in which the body is the place of the ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD