Stolen Life av Fred Moten

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<DIV>"Taken as a trilogy, <I>consent not to be a single being</I> is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of <I>Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination</I><BR/><BR/> In <I>Stolen Life</I>—the second volume in his landmark trilogy <I>consent not to be a single being</I>—Fred Moten undertakes an expansive exploration of blackness as it relates to black life and the collective refusal of social death. The essays resist categorization, moving from Moten''s opening meditation on Kant, Olaudah Equiano, and the conditions of black thought through discussions of academic freedom, writing and pedagogy, non-neurotypicality, and uncritical notions of freedom. Moten also models black study as a form of social life through an engagement with Fanon, Hartman, and Spillers and plumbs the distinction between blackness an