28: Performance, Debt, and Study in Fred Moten and Stefano Harney's "The Undercommons"

Stefano Harney and Fred Moten's "The Undercommons"; Maroon communities in Black thought; anticolonialism; What does Moten mean by study? Frank B Wilderson's Afropessimism; Posthumanism and liberation; Repetition in music and social change; improvizational jazz and iterative struggle; Social production's capture; Fanon's conception of lysis and the disorder of anticolonialism; Bad credit is the kind you want; The vampires in Sinners are the dangers of social production in the Undercommonsmusic: "#4" by Fred Moten and Brandon Lopezif I punch at the machine will it make a dent ,, Before I crack my hand open on the titanium steel and my blood slides off leaving no stains?  After the fires, will I know how to leave what’s dead? Sometimes it feels like something went wrong and that’s why we’re here, that we’re in some kind of cosmic cage or simulated psy-op. We become in the face of simulations and psy-ops, and from wrongness spring. syncretism is for the honorable and dishonorable alike. In thought and in body, no one, not two, in sky and seed sewn, we dream up shadows to love through and hold their calloused hands, shaping change in the nether pool from breath to breath and coming up again and again seeking vistas of freedom. We embody a haunted perspective and study the chaos. The mutant spirit still lives among us!There should be no attempt to fixate man, since it is his destiny to be unleashed!Learn from the labyrinths in breathing mountains. How do you look and where are you looking? Note when you’re stuck, put sugar on your tradition-pills, and record before flight. Your wax wings are warmer than you think. When you plummet and hit the mud, how does that feel to rot with glee--to decay with me?Like the process of radioactive decay in unstable atoms, degeneration yields a more sustainable future.

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