Fred Moten teaches performance studies at New York University. He has written a number of books of poetry and criticism, the most recent of which are consent not to be a single being (Duke University Press, 2017, and Perennial Fashion Presence Falling (Wave Books, 2023). Moten is now primarily engaged in a set of ongoing collaborations. He and Stefano Harney are co-authors of three books the most recent of which is All Incomplete (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2021). He is a member of the interdisciplinary arts collective Moved by the Motion and under its auspices is co-author, with Wu Tsang, of Who touched me? (If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution, 2016). Moten frequently accompanies bassist Brandon López. Their latest album is Revision (Tao Forms Records, 2025). Moten works on all of this with his comrade Laura Harris and their children Julian and Lorenzo.