Fred Moten

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, February 28, 2008
Compelete Recording (1:12:46)

1. Introduction by Tracie Morris and Jessica Lowenthal (8:10)

From B Jenkins
2. Gary Fisher (3:42)
3. Walter Benjamin/Julian Boyd (1:57)
4. William Parker/Fred McDowell (2:21)
5. Almeida Ragland/Cecil Taylor (1:22)
6. Peck Curtis (1:47)
7. John Thompson (1:51)
8. George Gervin/Michael Fried (0:25)
9. Adrian Piper (0:28)
10. Mike Davis and Glynda White (1:29)

From Hughson's Tavern
11. Metoike (4:01)
12. jazz (as ken burns (1:56)
13. The Club (0:54)
14. There is Blackness (0:52)
15. Here It Is (2:08)
16. Abduction Song (0:45)
17. Look at the Death of All These White People in Baltimore County (1:26)
18. Fugitivity is imminent to the thing but is manifest transversely (2:18)
19. The Various Project (1:02)
20. The Salve Trade (4:12)
21. Code and Tone (1:39)

From I ran from it and was still in it.
22. "I come from around..." (1:56)
23. "I pray to the elegant string..." (0:46)
24. "I burn communities..." (0:48)
25. "I want to work each other remotely..." (0:41)
26. "I wish for other singing..." (0:48)
27. "I saw tschibumba blue all blue..." (0:44)
28. "I need to get closer to Jesus..." (0:45)
29. "I thought about you as the new science..." (0:42)
30. "I got something that makes me want to shout..." (0:46)
31. "I carry the particles from market to market..." (0:47)
32. "I like to enjoy myself..." (0:55)
33. "I am foment..." (0:49)

34. Q & A (16:01)


Black Kant (Pronounced Chant): a Theorizing Lecture at the Kelly Writers House, February 27, 2007

"Black Kant (Pronounced Chant)" concerns itself with the relationship in Kant's late philosophy between race and the imagination. The paper attempts to mobilize the poetry of Norman H. Pritchard as a theoretical lens and amplifier through which to see and hear Kant more imaginatively, which is to say accurately. The paper is predicated on the notion that attention to the nexus of race and imagination opens up a particular way of understanding blackness as political and aesthetic fugitivity and on the hope that such an understanding might offer a corrective to tendencies to pathologize blacks and blackness.

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