Fred Moten: Selected Works [Online]
Full Tuition: $280 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select.
Instructor: Andrews | 4 Weeks | Sundays | February 25 - March 17 | 2:00-4:00 PM ET ONLINE
Poet-theorist Fred Moten is one of the most crucial aesthetic and political thinkers of our time. For over two decades, he has been exploring “blackness” as a concept and analytic praxis that disrupts static ideas of art and art objects, instead thinking the aesthetics of performance, excess, escape, and inexactitude through promiscuous engagement with philosophy, visual and performance art, literature, music, and myriad other genres. In this course, you'll learn from a former student of Moten's. Together, we will read through several essays and chapters from Moten’s works on art to try to understand his method and the concepts he develops, as well as the stakes of his black radical interventions into aesthetic theory. We’ll track his re-valuation of traditionally devalued concepts, such as “objecthood,” “blur,” “the hold,” “debt,” and “the break.” Moten’s writing is challenging and allusive (and often, perhaps purposely, elusive, too!). We’ll work together to attend to his claims and his own performative aesthetic, hoping to catch on—if only temporarily—to his radical claims about the always-emerging life and possibilities of history and our present moment through black thought. Readings will be drawn from Moten’s published books and essays, and we’ll watch quite a few videos, too, so we can get a feel for his feel!
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