Literary Nonfiction. African American Studies. Politics. Philosophy
& Critical Theory. Introduction by Jack Halberstam. 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: the
proliferation of capitalist logistics, governance by credit, and
the 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: 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."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"What kind of
intervention can cut through neoliberal configuration of today's
university, which betrays its own liberal commitment to bring about
emancipation? THE UNDERCOMMONS is a powerful and necessary
intervention that invites us to imagine and realise social life
otherwise. In this intimate and intense example of affected
writing--writing which is always already other, with an
other--Harney and Moten dare us to fall. Following, feeling, an
other possible manner living together, or as one may say with
Glissant--to be 'born into the world, ' which is the fate and gift
of blackness. Otherwise living, as in the quilombos created by
Brazilian slaves, is the promise that is escape "--Denise Ferreira
da Silva
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