“If something is to happen you have to come unprepared, unarmed; but you don’t come with nothing. You’ve got to bring something that adorns you even if it doesn’t arm you. Just a very small phrase, the noise of a small phrase if it is one, just the spirit of some phrasing, the soft racket of a small accompaniment. You’ve got to be adorned with the smallest augmentation.”

Fred Moten, riffing on Derrida, “In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition”

(via lowendtheory)

J: We all have one… Some need to find it, others among us need only struggle through the pain of remembrance to figure out where they set it down along the way. Here’s to one foot in front of the other once it’s found. 

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  5. justino said: Darn, well that was supposed to be posted above my reblogging of your post… We should talk about Moten and the BRT in general sometime. Hope your doing well oh so far away from NYC. - J
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    remembrance to figure out where they set it down along...way. Here’s to one foot in front...
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    break: the aesthetics
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