January + February Reading Group: The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study led by Lorena Cruz

Open Access link available here.

Past Schedule:

Prep for February 28th meeting (6:30 PM EST): Read chapters 1 - 6

Prep for January 31st meeting @ 6:30P EST: Read chapter 0, The Wild Beyond: With and for the Undercommons, and chapter 7, The General Antagonism: An Interview with Stevphen Shukaitis .

 
 

For the first two months of 2021, we’ll be taking on The Undercommons by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney. This cycle of reading group will be co-led by Lorena Cruz.

Summary: 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: 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