Declarations of Independence
Fred Moten’s improvisational critique of power
Jess Row

Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being)
by Fred Moten
Duke University Press Books
$27.95 List Price
Lately I’ve been preoccupied with a strange thought, what one might call a blip of cultural memory: The only human-made object that has reached interstellar space—the Voyager 1 probe, launched by nasa in 1977—is a record player. Though it carries mathematical formulas and graphs and drawings of human figures Voyager’sgold-plated 16 2⁄3 rpm record is the main event: It includes a selection from Glenn Gould’s The
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