The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet’s mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, improvisation, and the black radical aesthetic and political tradition. In Moten’s verse, the arts, scholarship, and activism intertwine. Cadences echo from his mother’s Arkansas home through African American history and avant-garde jazz riffs. Formal innovations suggest the ways that words, sounds, and music give way to one another.
The first and last poems in the collection are explicitly devoted to Moten’s mother; the others relate more obliquely to her life and legacy. They invoke performers, writers, artists, and thinkers including not only James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, Frederick Douglass, Billie Holiday, Audre Lorde, Charlie Parker, and Cecil Taylor, but also contemporary scholars of race, affect, and queer theory. The book concludes with an interview conducted by Charles Henry Rowell, the editor of the journal Callaloo. Rowell elicits Moten’s thoughts on the relation of his poetry to theory, music, and African American vernacular culture.

B Jenkins (Refiguring American Music)

Literature & Fiction

Fred Moten

Poetry

Duke University Press Books

Contents: Introduction -- Luka Arsenjuk and Michelle Koerner Creating Commons: Struggles Against Enclosure in the University -- Isaac Kamola and Eli Meyerhoff Surplus Knowledge; or, Can We Teach Today? -- Juliet Flower MacCannell Destinies of the University -- Alessandro Russo Risky Business: Why Public Is Losing to Private in American Research -- Christopher Newfield The Financialization of Student Life: Five Propositions on Student Debt -- Morgan Adamson Axiomatic Equality: Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Contemporary Education -- Nina Power An Elephant at School and Other Texts -- Colectivo Situaciones Reflections on Popular Education -- Universidad Trashumante On Study: A Roundtable Discussion With Marc Bousquet, Stefano Harney, and Fred Moten Universities in France: Forty Years After May 68 -- Renaud Becot The Gated Campus -- Gokce Gunel

Polygraph 21: Study, Students, Universities

Marc Bousquet

Alessandro Russo

Juliet Flower MacCannell

Christopher Newfield

Nina Power

Colectivo Situaciones

Universidad Trashumante

Stefano Harney

Isaac Kamola

Eli Meyerhoff

Morgan Adamson

Renaud Becot

Gokce Gunel

Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics

Fred Moten first delivered this remarkable lecture at Threewalls in Chicago, prompted by Harold Mendez's show "but I sound better since you cut my throat." Sputnik &amp; Fizzle's annotated and expanded transcription of A Poetics of the Undercommons includes an original preface by Stefano Harney and a reprint of Moten's reflections on Mendez's exhibition. Moten deftly explores various avenues of thought, explaining how he and Harney first developed a notion of the "undercommons" in their influential book The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning &amp; Black Study (Autonomedia, 2013). His is a lively and fascinating discussion of the disparate connections between Object-Oriented Ontology, Martin Heidegger's phenomenology, Franz Fanon, and Frank Wilderson, as well as the Buddhist philosophy of Nishida Kitarō-and how all these various intellectual threads shaped his ideas about blackness, sociality, and the "undercommons." Excerpt from A Poetics of the Undercommons: "Part of a rough outline of the trajectory I want to trace starts with a little exegetical commentary on the poem that Abby just read [Rock the Party, Fuck the Smackdown], and in particular to think about things-why I was concerned with things-and to see if I can figure out a way to move from concern about things to concern with nothing, or with nothingness; and, moreover, to see what nothingness and thingliness have to do with what Stefano and I have been calling the undercommons; and then to think about how nothingness, which is to say no-thingness manifests itself as a kind of practice, a practice that Denise Ferreira da Silva might describe as differentiation without separation, which is necessarily social and aesthetic, and which one can begin thinking about as a kind of poetics."

A Poetics of the Undercommons

Sputnik & Fizzle

The Reservoir (English and Kannada Edition)

P.M.

Matt Peterson

SILVIA FEDERICI

Franco Bifo Berardi

Geoff Dembicki

Woodbine Collective

Ernie Larsen

Ben Morea

Lily Abichahine

Caravanera/os

Alejandra Lopes Uribe

Clark Fitzgerald

Ryan Maleady

samira makki

Brendan Joyce

germ lynn

Er Linsker

Max Moorhead

Eero Talo

Adrian Wohlleben

Elia El Khazan

Emma B.B. Doyle

Kevin Gonzalez

Herminie Philippe

Sofia Peppe

Suzanne Goldenberg

Autonomedia

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