According to Wikipedia, Fred Moten is an American 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 previously taught at 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, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, and The Universal Machine . He has published numerous poetry collections, including The Little Edges, The Feel Trio, B Jenkins, and Hughson’s Tavern. 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."
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The Anomalous Book Red Dust A hybrid of theory-fiction-autobiography, red dust’s The Anomalous Book analyzes the maelstrom of “effects/affects of diffuse coercion, power within its absence,” writes Alan Sondheim in the book blurb (2021) (0)
Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure, and: Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (review) (1999) (0)
Fred Moten is most known for their academic work in the field of education. They are also known for their academic work in the fields of and literature.
Fred Moten has made the following academic contributions:
