A peremptory voice constantly calls on us to be responsible, efficient, professional. Even the commons have been colonized, the university has become an assembly line, and we are perpetually indebted to those who demand order. In response to the proliferation of capitalist logistics and today’s shifting forms of social control, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten offer this collection of essays, inviting us to experiment with new forms of sociality within the space of general antagonism.

Drawing on the theories and practices of the Black radical tradition and post-operaismo, the authors propose an expansion of the contemporary socio-political and aesthetic critical spectrum, in the United States and beyond. The Undercommons is a manifesto of love—suspended between theory and poetry, music and subversion—for the foundation of a new society.