The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
by Stefano Harney, Fred Moten (Author)
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In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition as it supports, inspires, and extends contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique. Today the general wealth of social life finds itself confronted by mutations in the mechanisms of control, from the proliferation of capitalist logistics through governance by credit and management of pedagogy. Working from and within the social poesis of life in the show more undercommons Moten and Harney develop and expand an array of concepts: study, debt, surround, planning, and the shipped. On the fugitive path of an historical and global blackness, the essays in this volume unsettle and invite the reader to the self-organised ensembles of social life that are launched every day and every night amid the general antagonism of the undercommons. show lessTags
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This is one I'll hold close and keep going back to for, well, study—and also and especially when I need to be reminded there's space and maybe even welcome out there for my malcontented striving.
Either the best or worst thing for me to have read just now, on the edge of returning to the university in Fall 2020. More complicated than that, of course. I will be processing many of these ideas for a long time, I think. Policy & study & planning in particular -- though all of the ideas here are tied up in one another.
A few lines from The Undercommons:
Critique lets us know that politics is radioactive, but politics is the radiation of critique.
We run looking for a weapon and keep running looking to drop it.
What are the politics of being ready to die and what have they to do with the scandal of enjoyment?
Can't you hear them whisper one another's touch.
Form is not the eradication of the informal. Form is what emerges from the informal.
I think you can make a good case that human being in the world is, and should be, sheer criminality. Which also, first and foremost, implies that making laws is a criminal activity.
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Critique lets us know that politics is radioactive, but politics is the radiation of critique.
We run looking for a weapon and keep running looking to drop it.
What are the politics of being ready to die and what have they to do with the scandal of enjoyment?
Can't you hear them whisper one another's touch.
Form is not the eradication of the informal. Form is what emerges from the informal.
I think you can make a good case that human being in the world is, and should be, sheer criminality. Which also, first and foremost, implies that making laws is a criminal activity.
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Stefano Harney is Assistant Professor of Sociology, City University of New York, College of Staten Island.
Fred Moten is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and the author of Black and Blur and Stolen Life, both also published by Duke University Press, and In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition.
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- 2013
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- Nonfiction, Philosophy, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 303.33 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social processes Coordination and control Social control
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- E185.86 .H37 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans Status and development since emancipation
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