Hi all,
Just in case you wanted to read the entire interview.
http://lithub.com/an-interview-with-fred-moten-pt-i/
Nasrin
Just in case you wanted to read the entire interview.
http://lithub.com/an-interview-with-fred-moten-pt-i/
Nasrin
Errantry (errance) 18- errantry does not proceed from renunciation nor from frustration regarding a supposedly deteriorated (deterritorialized) situation of origin; it is not a resolute act of rejection or an uncontrolled impulse of abandonment. - The thought of errantry is a poetics, which always infers that at some moment it is told. The tale of errantry is the tale of Relation. 21- The thinking of errancy conceives of totality but willingly renounces any claims to sum it up or possess it. 20- The thought of errantry is not apolitical nor is it inconsistent with the will to identity, which is, after all, nothing other than the search for a freedom within particular surroundings. Rhizomatic thought / rhizome 18- the rhizome- prompting the knowledge that identity is no longer completely within the root but also in Relation. Poetics of Relation 11- each and every identity is extended through a relationship with the Other 20- in the poetics of Relation, one who is erra...
A quote, after listenting to the Moten quote ...
ReplyDelete"Having our own voice means not accepting, for our thinking-saying-doing, relationships of guardianship or dependence set up from the multiple social places where power is concentrated. It means, also, not to forgive, at any moment , the network of interdependencies that we continually produce and inhabit. To start from the network of interdependence in which we do and we are (1) - which is a notion that comes from the political ecology - is something very different from what is delimited with the antinómic dependence / independence pair. It consists in keeping in mind, all the time, first of all that we are not isolated people, but that we are always inserted in dynamic clusters of links and relationships that precede us and that, at the same time, we produce through our daily actions. Secondly, it consists in being aware that the bonds in which we are-do (2), and that we also produce and transform on a daily basis, can draw a very wide range of varied forms".
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar
(1) (2) In the original "ser y estar", I don´t really know how to translate this difference.
https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/las12/13-10444-2016-03-18.html