By Zulaikha Ayub and Daniela Gandorfer [T]he master sets a problem, our task is to solve it, and the result is accredited true or false by a powerful authority. It is also a social prejudice with the visible interest… Continue Reading
By Heather Love Where is the undercommons? Inside the box or outside it? Beyond or beneath us? Do we go somewhere else to find it or do we drop down into it? Stefano Harney addresses this question in “The General… Continue Reading
By Allegra McLeod The slogan on the Left . . . ‘universities, not jails,’ marks a choice that may not be possible. In other words, perhaps more universities promote more jails. Perhaps it is necessary finally to see that… Continue Reading
By Marquis Bey Having been tasked with meditating on critique and praxis via the generative call of Bernard Harcourt but also, more fundamentally, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, I’ve come to a reticent conclusion that there may be no “end.”… Continue Reading
By Jack Halberstam At the end of the film Looking for Langston (1989), Isaac Julien’s beautiful meditation on the life and desires of Langston Hughes, a mixed group of black and white gay men are dancing in a warehouse. As… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “But if the critical academic is merely a professional, why spend so much time on him? Why not just steal his books one morning and give them to deregistered students in a closed-down and beery student… Continue Reading