Have you ever suffered from political despair, from despair about the organization of things? What does it mean to suffer from political despair when your identity is bound up with utopian political aspirations and desires? How is identity reconfigured in the absence or betrayal of those aspirations?

F. Moten: In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, Minneapolis 2003, p.93. Pendleton includes an interview with Fred Moten by Charles Henry Rowell in Pendleton, New York 2021, op. cit. (note 2), pp.209–28.