"We: A Conversation with Michael Hardt and Joshua Chambers-Letson"
Performance studies scholar Joshua Chambers-Letson and political philosopher Michael Hardt discuss the politics of love and the composition of social movements.

Joshua Chambers-Letson is professor of performance studies at Northwestern University, author of "After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life" and "A Race So Different: Law and Performance in Asian America," and co-editor with Tavia Nyong’o of José Esteban Muñoz’s "The Sense of Brown."

Michael Hardt teaches at Duke University, where he is codirector of the Social Movements Lab. Among the books he has co-authored with Antonio Negri are "Empire" and, most recently, "Assembly."

This podcast comprises a series of monthly conversations organized by Adam Pendleton and featuring pairs of notable writers, theorists, philosophers, and musicians. Participants include Jack Halberstam and Lynne Tillman, Michael Hardt and Joshua Chambers-Letson, Ruby Sales and Simone White, Susan Howe and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and Tyshawn Sorey and Matana Roberts. This audio series is published on moma.org as part of the exhibition "Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?" Excerpts from these dialogues are periodically incorporated into the sound installation within the exhibition, on view September 18, 2021–January 30, 2022. The conversations are presented in fragments, purposely incomplete.

We: A Conversation with Michael Hardt and Joshua Chambers-Letson

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Episode 1: Deantoni Parks

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Episode 2: DJ Stingray

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Episode 3: Juliana Huxtable

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We: A Conversation with Michael Hardt and Joshua Chambers-Letson

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