弗雷德-莫滕 文化理论家和诗人

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Fred Moten
Cultural Theorist and Poet | Class of 2020
Creating new conceptual spaces to accommodate emerging forms of Black aesthetics, cultural production, and social life.


Portrait of Fred Moten

Title
Cultural Theorist and Poet
Affiliation
Department of Performance Studies, New York University
Location
New York, New York
Age
58 at time of award
Area of Focus
Art History/Theory/Criticism and Visual Culture
Website
New York University: Fred Moten
Published October 6, 2020
ABOUT FRED'S WORK
Fred Moten is a cultural theorist and poet creating new conceptual spaces that accommodate emergent forms of Black cultural production, aesthetics, and social life. In his theoretical and critical writing on visual culture, poetics, music, and performance, Moten seeks to move beyond normative categories of analysis, grounded in Western philosophical traditions, that do not account for the Black experience. He is developing a new mode of aesthetic inquiry wherein the conditions of being Black play a central role.

Moten’s diverse body of work coheres around a relentless exploration of sound and its importance as a medium of Black resistance and creativity. His first book, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (2003), offers seminal insights that emerge from taking sound, as opposed to visual or textual imagery, as the point of departure for interpretation. For example, in considering Frederick Douglass’s famous account of the “terrible spectacle” of slavery, Moten identifies the screams of Douglass’s Aunt Hester as the materialization in sound of Black resistance, thus opening onto a new way of understanding the trauma of slavery as something not just seen but emphatically heard as well. Moten’s recently completed three-volume theoretical treatise, collectively called consent not to be a single being (2017–2018), includes essays written over the course of fifteen years. The breadth of his theoretical insights in these volumes extends across the arts and humanities—from the music of Curtis Mayfield and Billie Holiday to the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Theodor Adorno—as he explores notions of performance and freedom and formations of Black identity.

Moten continues the project of his theoretical work in his poetry. In his 2014 collection, The Feel Trio, for instance, language hovers at the edge of sense so that sound rises to the fore and the reading of the poem approaches musical performance. Through his writing and lectures, Moten is demonstrating the power of critical thinking to establish new forms of social actualization and reconfiguring the contours of the cultural field broadly.

BIOGRAPHY
Fred Moten received an AB (1984) from Harvard University and a PhD (1994) from the University of California at 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).



弗雷德-莫滕
文化理论家和诗人 | 2020级
创造新的概念空间，以适应黑人美学、文化生产和社会生活的新兴形式。


弗雷德-莫滕的肖像

标题
文化理论家和诗人
工作单位
纽约大学表演研究系
工作地点
纽约，纽约
年龄
获奖时为58岁
重点领域
艺术史/理论/批评和视觉文化
网站
纽约大学。弗雷德-莫滕
2020年10月6日出版
关于弗雷德的工作
弗雷德-莫滕是一位文化理论家和诗人，他创造了新的概念空间，以适应黑人文化生产、美学和社会生活的新兴形式。在他关于视觉文化、诗学、音乐和表演的理论和批评文章中，莫滕试图超越以西方哲学传统为基础的规范性分析类别，这些类别并不说明黑人的经验。他正在开发一种新的美学调查模式，其中作为黑人的条件发挥着核心作用。

莫顿的各种作品围绕着对声音及其作为黑人抵抗和创造媒介的重要性的不懈探索。他的第一本书《在休息中》。黑人激进主义传统的美学（2003年），提供了开创性的见解，这些见解来自于把声音，而不是视觉或文本图像，作为解释的出发点。例如，在考虑弗雷德里克-道格拉斯对奴隶制的 "可怕景象 "的著名描述时，莫滕将道格拉斯的姨妈海丝特的尖叫声确定为黑人反抗的声音的具体化，从而开启了一种理解奴隶制创伤的新方式，这种创伤不仅仅是看到的，还强调了听到的东西。莫顿最近完成的三卷本理论论文，统称为《同意不是一个单一的存在》（2017-2018），包括在15年中写的文章。他在这些卷中的理论见解的广度跨越了艺术和人文学科--从柯蒂斯-梅菲尔德和比利-哈乐黛的音乐到伊曼纽尔-康德和西奥多-阿多诺的批评哲学，因为他探索了表演和自由的概念以及黑人身份的形成。

莫滕在他的诗歌中继续他的理论工作项目。例如，在他2014年的诗集《感觉三重奏》中，语言徘徊在感觉的边缘，因此声音上升到了前面，对诗歌的阅读接近音乐表演。通过他的写作和讲座，莫顿展示了批判性思维的力量，以建立新的社会实现形式，并广泛地重新配置文化领域的轮廓。

个人简历
弗雷德-莫滕在哈佛大学获得学士学位（1984年），在加州大学伯克利分校获得博士学位（1994年）。自2017年以来，他一直担任纽约大学表演研究系的教授。他以前曾在加州大学河滨分校、杜克大学和爱荷华大学任教。莫顿的其他出版物包括《所有的美》（2019年）、《服务门廊》（2016年）、《小边缘》（2015年）、《B-詹金斯》（2010年）和《休森的酒馆》（2009年）；他与斯蒂法诺-哈尼合著《地下通道》。他与斯特凡诺-哈尼合著的《地下空间：逃亡的规划与黑色研究》（2013年）。