Stefano Harney and Fred Moten:
The Undercommons
Dismantling not recognition
‘We refuse to ask for recognition and instead we want to take apart, dismantle, tear down the structure that, right now, limits our ability to find each other, to see beyond it and to access the places we know lie beyond it’s walls’
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Refusal
‘The path to the wild beyond is paved with refusal.’
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‘We refuse order as the distinction between noise and music, chatter and knowledge, pain and truth.’
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Learning and academia being about being in the world
The subversive intellectual enjoys the ride and wants it to be faster and wilder; she does not want a room of his or her own, she wants to be in the world, in the world with others and making the world anew.’
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Study
Revolution will come in a form we cannot yet imagine. Moten and Harney propose that we prepare now for what will come by entering into study. Study, a mode of thinking with others separate from the thinking that the institution requires of you.’
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Fugitive – Movement
Subversive intellectual engage both the university and fugitivity
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You will no longer be in one location moving forward to another, instead you will be part of the ‘movement of things.’
The movement…is fugitivity itself.
Fugitivity is being separate from settling.
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