Gauss Seminars in Criticism: “Transubstantiation and Cosubstantiality” - Fred Moten

Fred Moten is a poet and scholar working in black studies, poetics, and critical theory, and is Professor in the Department of Performance Studies in the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. He is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003); Hughson’s Tavern (Leon Works, 2009); B. Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2010); The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions, 2014), The Little Edges (Wesleyan University Press, 2015), The Service Porch (Letter Machine Editions, 2016), and a three-volume collection of essays whose general title is consent not to be a single being (Duke University Press, 2017, 2018). Moten is also co-author, with Stefano Harney, of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2013) and A Poetics of the Undercommons (Sputnik and Fizzle, 2016); and, with Wu Tsang, Who touched me? (If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution, 2016).