black studies
to have a barbecue or a dance—all forms of unrestricted sociality that they slyly call “study.”
Fred Moten’s Radical Critique of the Present
“Fugitivity, then, is a desire for and a spirit of escape and transgression of the proper and the proposed. It’s a desire for the outside, for a playing or being outside, an outlaw edge proper to the now always already improper voice or instrument.”
Fred Moten’s Radical Critique of the Present
For Moten, blackness is something “fugitive,” as he puts it—an ongoing refusal of standards imposed from elsewhere.