The Most Dangerous Thing in America

This week on the podcast I return with the final part of my series on Emmanuel Eze's challenging "On Reason." In this episode, we discuss sections four and five of the book which are less theory and more the practice of doing philosophy. I'll be back in two weeks with some fiction, most likely Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Half of a Yellow Sun." Keep reading! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/th...

This week on the podcast I return with part two of my series on Emmanuel Eze's challenging "On Reason." In this episode, we discuss sections two and three of the book which includes talks of Wittgenstein, Derrida, Chomsky, Sadra Harding, Cimarron, and much more. I'll be back in two weeks with the third and final podcast in this series. Keep reading! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-most-d...

This week on the BONUS episode I read and discussed Vaughn A. Jackson's new horror novel "Touched By Shadows. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-most-dangerous-thing-in-america/id1551126578 https://open.spotify.com/show/5xky9xGXgdh0bTcUx1yNEf?si=c1b3769405b64615 https://soundcloud.com/bobby-wilson-588095918 Music from TheKeepRunning: https://soundcloud.com/user-861419594 To read my writings...

This week on the podcast I discussed "On Reason" by Emmanuel Eze. It's going to be a 3-part series. This part focused on the preface/introduction and Chapter 1. Philosophers discussed include Hobbes, Bacon, Hume, Aristotle, Husserl and Descartes. A few links to some helpful videos: https://youtu.be/Mj4N0O7QnPY https://youtu.be/ePQIagmcCXc I'll be back in two weeks with more "On Reason" but look ou...

This week on the podcast I discussed S.A. Cosby's "Razorblade Tears" and I guarantee I'm the only person who reviewed this book who said, "this book." Of course, I'm joking. Sort of. Next week I'm reading Vaughn A. Jackson's "Touched by Shadows." Make sure to subscribe/like/share. And keep reading. Music from TheKeepRunning: https://soundcloud.com/user-861419594 To read my writings: https://bobbyw...

This week on the podcast I discussed two books written by Tomi Adeyemi, "Children of Blood and Bone" and "Children of Virtue and Vengeance." Rate, review and subscribe below: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-most-dangerous-thing-in-america/id1551126578 https://open.spotify.com/show/5xky9xGXgdh0bTcUx1yNEf?si=c1b3769405b64615 Music from TheKeepRunning: https://soundcloud.com/user-861419594...

This week on the podcast I read C.L.R. James's excellent "Minty Alley." I loved this book. Read it. Read it! Gonna have a couple of non-scheduled pods coming up but on the schedule and happening, for sure, is "Razorblade Tears" by S.A. Cosby is getting read and reviewed (or talked about)in two weeks. Read along if you would. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-most-dangerous-thing-in-america...

This week on the podcast I read Nnedi Okorafor's latest novel "Noor." Here's a link to the writer's blog post about Africanfuturism vs. Afrofuturism: http://nnedi.blogspot.com/2019/10/africanfuturism-defined.html In two weeks I'll be discussing C.L.R. James's "Minty Alley." I might do a little podcast in between then and now time permitting but if not...keep reading!

We made it! This is the coda podcast for Fred Moten's "In the Break." Not a whole lot of discussion about the actual coda (which is about Adrian Piper) but a lot of thoughts about the book in general. In two weeks we will be back with a new book (a fiction book!) "Noor" by Nnedi Okorafor. If you want to read something I recently had published (or listen to it) below is a link to a piece of creativ...

Alright, this is Fred Moten III; this was recorded about a week after part 2 and there is a bit of cleanup here but not much. The final part is already in your feed so check it out. It's more of my thoughts and less of what the book is about although there's a brief discussion of the book's coda. If you want to read something I recently had published (or listen to it) below is a link to a piece of...

This episode we took on Chapter 2 of Fred Moten's "In the Break" which is titled "In the Break." Lots to discuss here, so here are some things referenced in the podcast this week: Black Dada Nihilimus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98oK6zZXmQw Nathaniel Mackey's EXCELLENT piece on Cante Moro - https://web.archive.org/web/20050507015349/http://groovdigit.com/authors/mackey/cantemoro.html Billie...

This week I read and discussed the first 2 sections of Fred Moten's "In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition." In two weeks I'll be back with the last two sections of the book. If you would like to read a piece I recently got published that is 100% unrelated to this podcast, click here: http://www.ilanotreview.com/ephemeral/the-donut-odyssey/

Finishing up chapters 4-6 of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Where Do We Go From Here." Next week on the podcast I'll be discussing Fred Moten's "In the Break."

This week on the podcast I read and reviewed Wole Soyinka's new novel "Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth." A print version of the review can be found at: https://www.litromagazine.com/reviews/book-review-chronicles-from-the-land-of-the-happiest-people-on-earth/ If you want to hear a more casual conversation about Soyinka's new novel, skip ahead to 10:40. In two weeks on the podcast we'll...

This week on the podcast we* read the first three chapters of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?" I'll be back in two weeks with the next two chapters. *Marlowe, my cat, pipes up quite a bit. Keep reading!

This week we read and discussed Mateo Askaripour's debut novel "Black Buck." In two weeks we start Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Where Do We Go From Here." It's going to be a two-podcast episode. Read along with me. Keep reading! #BookClub Intro and outro music by The Keep Running

This week on the podcast I read and discussed "These Toxic Things" by Rachel Howzell Hall. Next week I'll be reading "Black Buck" by Mateo Askaripour.

This week on the podcast I discuss Stanley Crouch's 1995 collection of essays "The All-American Skin Game." Next week I'll be talking about Rachel Howzell Hall's "These Toxic Things." Stay safe, stay Black and keep reading! Crouch talking about 50 Cent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-st9gbEHDc

This week on the podcast we discussed "Black Skin, White Masks" by Frantz Fanon, a book that needs no introduction. Probably talking Stanley Crouch next week.

This week on the podcast I read C. Riley Snorton's "Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity." This was a challenging read so I'll be doing something easier next week (feels like I say that a lot). Hope you enjoy and please follow or subscribe to the podcast wherever you are getting it. Thanks.

This week on the podcast we discuss "African Intellectuals Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development (Africa in the New Millennium)" which was a collection of essays written or released in 2003 to mark the 30th anniversary of CODESRIA. Writers discussed include Thandika Mkandawire, Ali Mazrui, and Ngugi Wa Thiong' O. Next week on the podcast we'll be discussing a work of fiction but ha...

This week on the podcast I discuss C.L.R. James's "Beyond a Boundary." Next week I'll be talking about Barbara Neely's "Blanche among the Talented Tenth."

This week on the podcast I'm talking about Brian Broome's 2021 memoir "Punch Me Up to the Gods." I also did a written review of the book here: https://www.litromagazine.com/reviews/book-review-punch-me-up-to-the-gods/ Next week I said I was going to read a piece of fiction but actually it's going to be "Beyond a Boundary" by C.L.R. James.

Finishing up our 3-part series on Cedric J. Robinson's "Black Marxism." Next week (or in two weeks, or sooner...) we will be talking about "Punch Me Up to the Gods" by Brian Broome.

We're back with part two of the three-part series on Cedric J. Robinson's "Black Marxism." Next, we'll be wrapping up the trilogy.