A review by jckmd
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Stefano Harney, Fred Moten

Did not finish book. Stopped at 30%.

Borderline unreadable. Baffled at all the rave reviews. Some of the most insufferably indulgent academic word salad I have come across in recent memory. It's not that the ideas aren't important or incisive, it's that they're buried beneath exhausting, pretentious diction and sentences that get so lost in themselves they don't even seem to realize they've ended. It is not anti-intellectual to call out excessively arcane stuff like this, but rather pro-inclusion; if your arguments really are universal, they should also be coherent and accessible. And if accessibility was the goal, the authors failed miserably. Maybe hire a copyeditor next time?