Reviews
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Stefano Harney, Fred Moten, J. Jack Halberstam
lizahl's review against another edition
4.0
Either the best or worst thing for me to have read just now, on the edge of returning to the university in Fall 2020. More complicated than that, of course. I will be processing many of these ideas for a long time, I think. Policy & study & planning in particular -- though all of the ideas here are tied up in one another.
foundeasily's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
3.5
I could see myself returning to this and liking it more. The looseness of it made it difficult to key in on in this reading but I took some notable points away.
mistylloyd's review against another edition
4.0
This was an incredibly quick and easy read, but it was packed with multiple great thoughts, and it is something I definitely see myself coming back to.
whosawer's review against another edition
4.0
Interesting ideas of study as collective/individual knowledge developed through cooperation, discourse, collaboration. Policy as something done to others, an improper answer to inequality/injustice.
beepbeepbooks's review against another edition
5.0
Incredible... opaque.... this book opens the door to reassessment of the our world in every sense, the social with the material, the performative and the authoritative, the non individualised... I feel so strongly for this book I cannot express myself. To read again and again
ruarilpa's review against another edition
5.0
famously dense but some of the ideas I've returned to the most and keep cropping up in my thoughts are from this book - STUDY! DECOLONISE THE UNIVERSITY!
soafricane's review against another edition
5.0
It’s the plenitude of generative ideas and how they chafe against each other. I’d initially read the second chapter with peers in March but diving into the whole expanse of the Undercommons opened me up to a buoyant, mesmerizing exercise in the rigors of Black study.