{"product_id":"black-and-blur-9780822370161","title":"Black and Blur","description":"\"Taken as a trilogy, \u003ci\u003econsent not to be a single being\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eEpistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBlack and Blur\u003c\/i\u003e--the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy \u003ci\u003econsent not to be a single being\u003c\/i\u003e--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. \u003ci\u003eBlack and Blur\u003c\/i\u003e is marked by unlikely juxtapositions: Althusser informs analyses of rappers Pras and Ol' Dirty Bastard; Shakespeare encounters Stokely Carmichael; thinkers like Kant, Adorno, and Jos? Esteban Mu?oz 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFred Moten is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and the author of \u003ci\u003eB Jenkins\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press, \u003ci\u003eIn the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e, and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Undercommons: Fugitive Planning \u0026amp; Black Study\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50656069255442,"sku":"9780822370161","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ab14d305-c306-4ae4-9878-a49a234e9ff1.jpg?v=1733383976","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-and-blur-9780822370161","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}