#the undercommons

[discoursets]

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[1000rh]

I think Fanon is always trying to move against the grain of this itinerary of return, this reversal of image or standpoint. […] Fanon understands that the very taking of an anti-colonial stance looks crazy, from a normative perspective. For me, first of all, that’s good. That’s something that’s worthwhile. In other words, what it’s about is, “I’m gonna claim this thing that looks crazy from your perspective.” But, of course, the problem, I think, with Fanon in Black Skin, is you can do this thing that looks crazy from the normative perspective, but of course in some complicated way there is no non-normative perspective. The non-normative is precisely the absence of a point of view […]. Eventually, I believe, he comes to believe in the world, which is to say the other world, where we inhabit and maybe even cultivate this absence, this place which shows up here and now, in the sovereign’s space and time, as absence, darkness, death, things which are not.

– Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons (2013)

[altrbody]

"I am a black man number one, because I am against what they have done and are still doing to us; and number two, I have something to say about the new society to be built because I have a tremendous part in that which they have sought to discredit."

--C. L. R. James, C. L. R. James: His Life and Work

[deepdrearn]

The university and the undercommons - Fred Moten & Stefano Harney

[endlessandrea]

[kakaji]

“We must...refuse that which was first refused to us and in this refusal reshape desire, reorient hope, reimagine possibility and do so separate from the fantasies nestled into rights and respectability” - Fred Moten and Stefano Harney

Intro to The Undercommons --> here

[barofile]

The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study

Book by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney

[becomingwhatever]