24th apr at 18:30
Fred Moten
Notes on dis place/meant
conference
auditório ilídio pinho
 

The Stranger
Program of Concerts, Conferences, Exhibitions and Performances 2025

In proximity to the theme of the stranger, or of estrangement, Fed Moten will try to provide a provenance and analysis of a term that has animated the thinking and writing he has been doing lately - "dis place/meant." He'll be talking about writing by Amiri Baraka and M. NourbeSe Philip, and he'll be thinking about the role of art in the continued stability of the relay between self, state, and world in the ongoing war against subsistence.

Fred Moten studies the social practice of poetry/criticism. He lives in New York City and teaches at New York University. His most recent work, in collaboration with Brandon López and Gerald Cleaver, is the blacksmiths, the flowers (Reading Group Records, 2024).