Black Studies: Grammars of the Fugitive
A public lecture with Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
Friday 6th December 2013 @ 6.30pm
Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre / Whitehead Building / Goldsmiths College, 
University of London

Black Studies Group (London) and Centre for Cultural Studies (Goldsmiths 
College) are delighted to host a public lecture to be delivered by Fred 
Moten and Stefano Harney. The publication of their Undercommons: 
Fugitive Planning and Black Study (Minor Compositions, 2013) marked a 
culmination point in an ongoing project in which they have sought to 
reinvigorate contemporary social thought and aesthetic critique by way 
of the black radical tradition. Deploying concepts such as “study”, 
“undercommons”, “debt”, “speculative practice”, “blackness” and 
“fugitivity”, Harney and Moten have loosened what for many now seems 
like the strained and distant relations between intellectual thought, 
academic labour and collective (under)common action. We hope you can 
join the Black Studies Group in coming together to make delusional plans 
with both Moten and Harney.

Bios:
Fred Moten received his Ph.D. in English from UC Berkeley. He is a 
student of Afro-diasporic social and cultural life with teaching, 
research and creative interests in poetry, performance studies and 
critical theory. His books include In the Break: The Aesthetics of the 
Black Radical Tradition, Hughson’s Tavern, B. Jenkins, The Undercommons: 
Fugitive Planning and Black Study (with his frequent collaborator 
Stefano Harney) and The Feel Trio.

Stefano Harney is Professor of Strategic Management Education, Singapore 
Management University and co-founder of the School for Study, an 
ensemble teaching project. He employs autonomist and postcolonial theory 
in looking into issues associated with race, work, and social 
organization. Recent books include The Ends of Management (co-authored 
with Tim Edkins) and The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study 
(co-authored with Fred Moten). Stefano lives and works in Singapore.

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All welcome, no registration required.

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