QUILTING POINTS:

Wednesday 20th March | 4:00-6:00pm | The Meeting Room (School of English) Please join the Critical Life Research Collective and Quilting Points for a special collaborative session. This session will take its cue from Quilting Point’s year-long consideration of Cedric Robinson’s work, reflecting on that work in the light of a thinker who takes aspects of Robinson’s ideas in a different direction: Fred Moten. To this end, we will consider two short essay interventions into the aftermath of the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri – a critical event, the ramifications of which have been felt over the past decade.   Both Robinson and Moten want to think through the relationship between the symbolism of the killing and the singularity of Michael Brown. Brown’s murder occurred at the end of Robinson’s career. Nevertheless, it provided a final opportunity for him, alongside his then-wife and collaborator Elizabeth Robinson, to set out their political commitments in ‘The