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

5.0

i feel like i had placed my self under advisement to read this book right away for about a year before i actually did. maybe it was two years. i should be ashamed of myself. i had the digital download but this is the kind of book you have to feel in the world with the paper and i lucked upon a copy that allows that. this book is rather audacious in its insistence that blackness should be a resource to any political action in our global present (code for a very gentle read on the occupy paroxysm and other associated social events within and without trickle-down academia). that examining the predicament of black people provides necessary insight into the empire you're fighting. this came off as poetically stretched in a way that teased contrivance and will merit and obtain later re-reading, re-absorption. of course i keep being like "who's this stefano guy?" and it should be little doubt that i was there for fred mostly. the first thing that pops up for the other guy is a page placing him in singapore. i've been told he's really out of the uk. so i have this disjunctive image of a containerized hold heading for singapore probably from london piloted by captain phillips. so this guy is naturally on my reading list, i mean if fred likes him, heck! it's something to tide you over till moten's follow-up to in the break, but not quite as expansive as that longed-for fantasized book would have to be.