Moten, Taste Dissonance Flavor Escape (Preface to a Solo by Miles Davis

I speak of her pla­ce­ment, her posi­tion (within a struc­ture), the­re­by rai­sing, by way of a kind of sub­mer­gence, the ques­tion of her agen­cy, her trans­verse, auto-exces­sive inter­ven­tion in the his­to­ry of agen­cy. To attempt to locate her agen­cy is pre­ci­se­ly to mark the fact that it lies, impos­si­bly, in her posi­tion, in an appo­si­tio­nal force deri­ved from being-posed, from being-sent, from being-loca­ted. Her agen­cy is in her loca­tion in the inter­val, in and as the break. This is what it is to take, while appo­sing, the object posi­tion with some­thing like that dual force of hol­ding and out­pou­ring that Heidegger attri­butes to the thing…