Sobcomuns: Planejamento fugitivo e estudo negro

by Fred Moten, Stefano Harney (editor)

Nesta série de ensaios, Fred Moten e Stefano Harney recorrem à tradição radical negra para pensar questões candentes relacionadas à proliferação da lógica e da logística capitalista no universo acadêmico e no mundo social. Partindo da experiência de exclusão social e existencial das pessoas negras, indígenas, queers e pobres, os autores teorizam sobre as possibilidades criativas de vida nos "sobcomuns", entendido como o espaço ocupado por aqueles espoliados da subjetividade mesma e defendido como uma espécie de reduto das rupturas históricas provocadas pelo capital. Os "sobcomuns" são aqueles que permanecem sob o radar do controle capitalista, às margens da ordem social, refratários à assimilação pelo sistema e lutando por outras formas de conviver, sentir e trabalhar. Ao recorrer a esse repositório, Moten e Harney encontram experiências como a quilombagem, os protestos e manifestações de massa, os boicotes, a desobediência civil, as revoltas de escravizados e as insurreições anticoloniais, e a partir delas propõem repensar toda uma gramática estabelecida pelo capitalismo contemporâ dívida e crédito; vigilância e controle; o sentido de diretivas e da governança; as noções de estudo e planejamento coletivo; o lugar da Universidade e das instituições educacionais; os limites das estruturas administrativas e governamentais existentes. Afinal, é no rastro das estratégias "fugidias" dos sobcomuns, defendem os autores, que poderemos encontrar princípios anticapitalistas de recusa das injustiças, resistência coletiva e auto-organização.

229 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 10, 2024

About the author

Fred Moten is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press), Hughson’s Tavern (Leon Works), B. Jenkins (Duke University Press), The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions) and co-author, with Stefano Harney, of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia). His current projects include two critical texts, consent not to be a single being (forthcoming from Duke University Press) and Animechanical Flesh, which extend his study of black art and social life, and a new collection of poems, The Little Edges.

In 2009 Moten was Critic-in-Residence at In Transit 09: Resistance of the Object, The Performing Arts Festival at the House of World Cultures, Berlin and was also recognized as one of ten “New American Poets” by the Poetry Society of America; in 2011 he was a Visiting Scholar and Artist-in-Residence at Pratt Institute; in 2012, he was Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University and a member of the writing faculty of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College; and in 2013 he was a Guest Faculty Member in the Summer Writers Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa Institute. He was also a member of the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California, Irvine from 2002 to 2004 and a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York from 2001 to 2002.

Moten served as a member of the Board of Managing Editors of American Quarterly and has been a member of the Editorial Collectives of Social Text and Callaloo, and of the Editorial Board of South Atlantic Quarterly. He is also co-founder and co-publisher (with Joseph Donahue) of a small literary press called Three Count Pour.