black studies

For Moten, blackness is something “fugitive,” as he puts it—an ongoing refusal of standards imposed from elsewhere.

“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.”

to have a barbecue or a dance—all forms of unrestricted sociality that they slyly call “study.”