Stefano Harney Libri

Examines the labor of government workers in North America. Countering conceptions of the government and its employees as remote and inflexible, this work uses the theory of mass intellectuality developed by Italian worker- theorists to illuminate the potential for genuine political progress inherent within state work.

Building on the ideas Harney and Moten developed in The Undercommons, All Incomplete extends the critical investigation of logistics, individuation and sovereignty. It reflects their chances to travel, listen and deepen their commitment to and claim upon partiality. All Incomplete studies the history of a preference for the force and ground and underground of social existence. Engaging a vibrant constellation of thought that includes the work of Amilcar Cabral, Erica Edwards, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Cedric Robinson, Walter Rodney, Hortense Spillers and many others, Harney and Moten seek to share and understand that preference. In so doing, Moten and Harney hope to have forged what Manolo Callahan, echoing Ivan Illich, calls a convivial tool that - despite the temptation to improve and demand, develop and govern, separate and grasp - helps us renew our habits of assembly. All Incomplete features the work of award winning photographer Zun Lee, exploring and celebrating the everyday spaces of Black sociality, intimacy, belonging, and insurgency, and a preface by Denise Ferreira da Silva.

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.

Zwischen Black Radical Tradition und ökonomischer Theorie, zwischen Poesie und Philosophie, zwischen Ethiko-Ästhetik und politischer Theorie - die Undercommons entfalten ihre soziopoetische Kraft in einem weiten Feld: Unter der neoliberalen Verwaltung der Universität, vor der ökonomischen Police neuester Logistik, um die schuldengetriebenen Governance herum suchen und finden Stefano Harney und Fred Moten den Reichtum sozialen Lebens gerade in den scheinbar unmöglichsten Lagen: als „Umgebung“, „flüchtige Planung“ oder „schwarzes Studium“. Der Sound, der Rhythmus, die Grooves und die Hook-Lines von Undercommons treiben den antikolonialen Aufstand an, fort und weiter, die Marronage, die queeren Schulden, die Fluchtlinien, das Schwarz-Sein, die Haptikalität und die Logistikalität, die Liebe.