The sub-commons

The Undercommons is a series of essays published in 2013 by two friends, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten. The authors offer a critique of racial capitalism and its tools, as well as modes of social experimentation in resistance to colonial. Research involves study and takes place well beyond university, at work, during a cigarette break, with family, around a meal, on the edge of fight and flight, within a movement of shaking of the imperialist foundations, of a movement of refusal of the terms of the fight as it is imposed, towards the construction of a social space and politics in perpetual displacement. The place and the being under commons are part of the uncertainty of collective creation, of habitation through exchange, of improvisation as criticism. The Undercommons is written in the wake of the radical black tradition of in a way that is both theoretical and poetic, with authors like Cedric Robinson, Saidiya Hartman, Édouard Glissant or Frantz Fanon. This edition, accompanied by a preface by Jack Halberstam, is the fruit of work collective translation carried out during workshops for a little over two years.