Dodgy Scholars: Resisting the Neoliberal Academy

“Our common launching point for this piece is Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s essay entitled “The University and the Undercommons” (2004), as included within and connected to their book The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (Harney and Moten 2013). In these writings, Moten and Harney explain the role and value of radical scholarship through the notion of the “undercommons.”