Fred Moten on Palestine and the Nation-State of Israel

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Streamed live on October 25, 2023

Fred Moten joins us live to talk about Palestine, decolonization, settler colonialism, and the nation-state of Israel. Fred Moten is a cultural theorist, poet, and scholar whose work explores critical theory, black studies, and performance studies. Moten is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of California, Riverside. He along with Stefano Harney co-authored The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study and All Incomplete with Stefano Harney. He is the author of the Consent not to be a single being trilogy and numerous volumes of poetry among other work. 

 

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Fred Moten (b. August 18, 1962) is an American cultural theorist, poet, and scholar whose work explores critical theory, black studies, and performance studies. He is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and has taught previously at University of California, Riverside, Duke University, Brown University, and the University of Iowa. His scholarly texts include The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study which was co-authored with Stefano Harney, and In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. In 2020, Moten was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for "[c]reating new conceptual spaces to accommodate emerging forms of Black aesthetics, cultural production, and social life."He has published numerous poetry collections, including The Little Edges, The Feel Trio, B Jenkins, and Hughson’s Tavern. He is also the author of the books of essays and poetics The Black and Blur and The Universal Machine, both also published by Duke University Press (2018), and In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. University of Minnesota Press, 2003

Moten was raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, and lived briefly in Pennsylvania and Arkansas before enrolling at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. After one year at Harvard, he took a hiatus and went back to Las Vegas, where he worked as a janitor at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, read Dante, and wrote poems. One year later, he returned to Harvard and received his AB, before earning his PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2017, he has served as a professor in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. He has taught previously at the University of California at Riverside, Duke University, and the University of Iowa. Moten’s additional publications include All That Beauty (2019), The Service Porch (2016), The Little Edges (2015), B Jenkins (2010), and Hughson’s Tavern (2009); and he is co-author, with Stefano Harney, of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (2013).