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335:, using it to suggest that students "must look beyond the university for progressive alternatives." Defining the "commons" as the shared wealth of the university as an institution, a "commons of knowledge and pedagogy", the authors subsequently questioned its status as a commons because of the university's status as "an elite institution which is in itself based on hierarchy and privilege". They stated that people who are not welcomed within the university "will seek that refuge beyond the institution’s professionalised modes of knowledge and pedagogy", in the undercommons, and noted 361:"has made real the undercommons of the University as a moment of survival and of fugitive planning". Hall elaborated that academic laborers including university staff and students had generated organizing power and energy during the crisis, and questioned how those laborers would "respond to the institutional focus upon its own economic and financial welfare, over our corporeal and psychological well-being". 27: 306:
as "a provocative world-making project or, at the very least, a radical reorientation toward love and belonging that has deep ties to a Black radical tradition", and stated that "Harney and Moten see little value in merely altering variables in an already-existing social world".
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as being "about how to intellectually be together," while her fiance Anthony Romero described it as "about how everyday social life, outside of academic institutions, forms a kind of intellectual practice". In
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as one of her ten favorite books, describing it as a "difficult, beautiful, vertiginous, fortifying and enlivening piece of work" about concepts including "study, debt, surround, planning and the shipped."
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and Minor Compositions. It is 166 pages long. Upon publication, it was made
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and the experience of African communities in the slave trade.
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analyzed the concept of the undercommons in the context of
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Lamusse, T.; Morgan, S.; Rākete, E.; Birchall, A. (2015).
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who met while at the school. It was published in 2013 by
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is composed of six essays as well as an interview with
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2013 essay collection by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney
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The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
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suggested that the undercommons as characterized in
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Cover of The Undercommons
Fred Moten
Stefano Harney
Autonomedia
essays
ISBN
978-1-57027-267-7
Dewey Decimal
essays
Fred Moten
Stefano Harney
academia
Fred Moten
Stefano Harney
alumni
Harvard University
Autonomedia
available for free download
Spanish
Cristina Rivera Garza
Stevphen Shukaitis
academia
public policy
professional–managerial class
transportation networks
Chicago Tribune
Abigail Satinsky
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Maggie Nelson
Jesse McCarthy

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