{"product_id":"the-universal-machine-9780822370468","title":"The Universal Machine","description":"\"Taken as a trilogy, \u003ci\u003econsent not to be a single being\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eEpistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Universal Machine\u003c\/i\u003e-the concluding volume to his landmark trilogy \u003ci\u003econsent not to be a single being\u003c\/i\u003e-Fred Moten presents a suite of three essays on Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, and Frantz Fanon, in which he explores questions of freedom, capture, and selfhood. In trademark style, Moten considers these thinkers alongside artists and musicians such as William Kentridge and Curtis Mayfield while interrogating the relation between blackness and phenomenology. Whether using Levinas's idea of escape in unintended ways, examining Arendt's antiblackness through Mayfield's virtuosic falsetto and Anthony Braxton's musical language, or showing how Fanon's form of phenomenology enables black social life, Moten formulates blackness as a way of being in the world that evades regulation. Throughout \u003ci\u003eThe Universal Machine\u003c\/i\u003e-and the trilogy as a whole-Moten's theorizations of blackness will have a lasting and profound impact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fred Moten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822370468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFred Moten is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and the author of \u003ci\u003eBlack and Blur\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStolen Life\u003c\/i\u003e, both also published by Duke University Press, and \u003ci\u003eIn the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40198636273779,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":109.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d9eaa367-dfa9-4581-b13a-8650970c1d2d.jpg?v=1656079710","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-universal-machine-9780822370468","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}