Fred Moten is an author whose works delve into the aesthetics of the Black radical tradition, black art, and social life. His writing, often blending poetry and critical theory, explores themes of resistance, study, and fugitive practices. Moten's approach is characterized by a deep engagement with critical discourse on art and culture, expanding understandings of Black experience and its impact on contemporary thought. His contributions challenge readers to rethink perceptions of art and social structures.
This comprehensive monograph highlights the sixty-year career of Frank Stewart, showcasing his profound and empathetic photography that captures the essence of Black life, music, and culture. It serves as a retrospective of his work, reflecting on the diverse and intimate moments he documented throughout his career, emphasizing his unique perspective and artistic contributions to the field of photography.
This powerful collection highlights the importance of snapshots in Black American life: as tools to challenge stereotypes, and as a way to document family and culture Thoughtfully illustrated, this volume highlights a selection of photographs of African American family life between the 1970s and the early 2000s--pictures that were lost by their original owners and then found by the artist Zun Lee on a street in Detroit in 2012, marking the beginning of the Fade Resistance collection of more than 4,000 Polaroids. Lee describes the collection as an important record of Black visual self-representation and a means to "reflect the way Black people saw themselves on their terms--without the intention of being seen, or judged, by others." To Lee, these powerful photographs are an expression of "Black life mattering." These vivid images chronicle milestones such as weddings, birthdays and graduations, as well as quiet daily moments, offering contemporary views long ignored or erased by mainstream culture. Together, these works highlight the role snapshots have played in Black life, as tools to challenge stereotypical portrayals and as a means to memorialize family, culture and heritage. Topics such as self-representation, visual history and the social power of photographs are addressed in critical texts by Sophie Hackett, Stefano Harney, Zun Lee and Fred Moten, and an original contribution by celebrated poet Dawn Lundy Martin.
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.
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.
In Black and Blur-the first volume in his consent not to be a single being
trilogy-Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force
of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life, exploring a wide
range of thinkers, musicians, and artists.
This fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred
Moten is an elegy to his mother and an inquiry into language, music,
performance, improvisation, and the black radical tradition.
