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jeandonnelly:Fred Moten, from The Feel Trio (Letter Machine...

jeandonnelly:

Fred Moten, from The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions).

ELDERLY 8: SHUT THE GATE

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Elderly is from Brooklyn, NY

Curated by Nicholas DeBoer & Jamie Townsend
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Issue Eight

featuring

JANE GREGORY

ELIZABETH CRAWFORD

JORDAN STEMPLEMAN

ELAINE KAHN

NAT RAHA

CEDAR SIGO

THE FRAGILITY OF FRIENDSHIP (AND EVERYTHING ELSE)

THE FRAGILITY OF FRIENDSHIP (AND EVERYTHING ELSE):

loneberry:

have i forgotten how to write? i’ve forgotten how to write.

that night, when the thought occurred to me to write, i wanted to write something entirely different from what i wrote.

as i sat at the kitchen table sipping on the holy basil tea i thought about all the people i have known

people lost…

http://lemonhound.com/2015/02/09/mat-...

http://lemonhound.com/2015/02/09/mat-laporte-on-katy-bohinc-dear-alain/:

I liked Katy Bohinc's Dear Alain so much I wrote her a letter disguised as a review (or a review disguised as a letter?)

"Al Green creatively hallucinates a ‘new world,’ indicts the more insidious falseness of the world as..."

“Al Green creatively hallucinates a ‘new world,’ indicts the more insidious falseness of the world as we know it. (Listen, for example, to ‘Love and Happiness.’) What is it in the falsetto that thins and threatens to abolish the voice but the wear of so much reaching for heaven? … I’m suggesting, the falsetto explores a redemptive, unworded realm—a meta-word, if you will—where the implied critique or the momentary eclipse of the word curiously rescues, restores and renews it: new word, new world.”

- from Nathaniel Mackey’s Bedouin Hornbook (via Fred Moten’s In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition)

Perfect. ‘specially that third sentence. (via hyperbody)

culturite:Fred Moten: “Blackness and Performance” (Speaking in...

culturite:

Fred Moten: “Blackness and Performance” (Speaking in Poland, 2014)

on generative disruption of fundamental categories and the idea of ‘categories’ themselves. 

this man right here is a beautiful spirit & creative force. 

From the Papers of The Mariah Carey Institute for the Coming Insurrection (The New Order of St Agatha): The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Burning Riots, by DB Guest Blogger Cassandra Gillig

From the Papers of The Mariah Carey Institute for the Coming Insurrection (The New Order of St Agatha): The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Burning Riots, by DB Guest Blogger Cassandra Gillig:

  The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Burning Riots were literally sparked by 105-time grammy award winning artist Mariah Carey after her legendary December 4, 2014 performance at Rockefelle…

Happy birthday Cassandra Gillig!

"We are in a condition of ‘quantum entanglement’. We are connected to one another…The condition..."

“We are in a condition of ‘quantum entanglement’. We are connected to one another…The condition within which we live is one of difference without separability. Our social life is best described as a kind of mass, massive contact improvisation; and the brutality of life emerges out of our refusal or our disavowal of that fact.”

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Fred Moten (via culturite)

Does anyone know what text or talk this quote comes from?

Audio

Or SomethingYou think the day is made of timeLike a field of four o’clocksI live in this city...

Or Something

You think the day is made of time
Like a field of four o’clocks
I live in this city to cross the street
To my heart’s content
Or something
The same luminosity
As the sky: eastern buildings
For a few minutes after sunset
And buy some fluke for dinner