Poetry News

You Must Watch This Fred Moten Lecture

By Harriet Staff

Bethany Ides just pointed us to this video of Fred Moten lecturing at Bard last summer, with a “must-see” directive, and she’s right. “If you want something relaxing wherein you can still think,” along those lines.

Watch “The Touring Machine: Flesh Thought Inside Out,” which “explores some issues that emerge at the convergence of cognitive science (selfhood), political theory (sovereignty) and black poetics (slavery),” below.

Tags: Bethany Ides, Fred Moten
Posted in Poetry News on Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 by Harriet Staff.