Undercommons, The: Fugitive Planning & Black Study

Harney, Stefano; Moten, Fred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570272670 ISBN 13: 9781570272677

Publisher: MINOR COMPOSITIONS, 2013

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 undercommons Moten and Harney develop and expand an array of concepts.

Review:

"This is a powerful book, made of words and sounds, crisscrossed by subversion and love, written and studied 'with and for, ' as Stefano Harney and Fred Moten put it. The roar of the battle is never distant while reading The Undercommons. The London riots and occupy, practices of refusal, marronage and flight, slave revolts and anti-colonial uprisings frame a challenging rethinking of concepts such as policy and planning, debt and credit, governance and logistics. The Undercommons is a homage to the black radical tradition, to its generative and constituent power before the task of imagining 'dispossessed feelings in common' as the basis of a renewed communism." - Sandro Mezzadra

About the Author:

Stefano Harney is Professor of Strategic Management Education at Singapore Management University. He is the author of State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality (2002) and The Ends of Management (forthcoming). Fred Moten is Professor of Modern Poetry at Duke University and the author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (2003) and B Jenkins (2010).