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FredMoten ⋅ « Taste Dissonance Flavor Escape (Preface to a Solo by Miles Davis) »
In The painting of modern life T. J. Clark says Olympia has a choice, working against the definition of the prostitute offered by Henri Turot, for whom prostitution implies ‘first venality and second absence of choice’ (Clark 1984, 79). For Turot, further, the prostitute’s very existence depends upon the temporary relations she entertains with her customers, the subjects, relations that are public and without love. An absence of privacy, then, where privacy implies a self-possession aligned not only with reason, will, choice, but also with feeling or with the ability to feel. An absence of sovereignty where sovereignty implies a…
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FredMoten ⋅ « Notes on Passage (The New International of Sovereign Feelings) »
Refugees study change not only because they’ve been put through changes but also because changes are what they want and what they play and what they are. Refugees study a mode of study—the contrapuntal intersection of a set of interstitial fields, dislocation in a hole or a hold or a whole or a crawlspace. Such study is inhabitation that moves : by way of—but also in apposition to—injury, which is irreducible in the refugee though she is irreducible to it. There is, in turn, passage in acknowledging the theoretical practice of the one who emerges as if from nowhere, rooted in…
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FredMoten ⋅ « 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…
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FredMoten ⋅ « Blackness and nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh) »
I am totally with him in locating my optimism in appositional proximity to his pessimism even if I would tend not to talk about the inside/outside relationality of social death and social life while speaking in terms of apposition and permeation rather than in terms of opposition and surrounding. Fred Moten Blackness and nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh) South Atlantic Quarterly 112 2013 737–780 eng…
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FredMoten ⋅ « The New International of Rhythmic Feeling(s) »
Movement like this isn’t parallel but off and out ; tangent as much as crossing ; asymptotic, appositional encounter. As soon as we call this line we’re on derailment we’ll begin to study how all this out root goes. Train circle, then bridge, then fall. Fred Moten The New International of Rhythmic Feeling(s) Sonic Interventions 18 2007 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401205092_004 eng…