ABSTRACT
The keywords that crop up again and again in Moten and Harney's work among the most prominent are fugitivity, undercommons, study, policy, planning, critical, improvisation, governance, negligence could certainly be said to bear a weight of contemporary social and cultural significance. The undercommons refers to the existence and proliferation of non-professional and uncategorised knowledges and existences that exist and proliferate outside of institutions and official and policed society. Somewhat like Freud's unconscious, the undercommons is a relational concept, that is to say not just, and not even, in fact, a setting out of the where something takes place, but the how it exists or works in relation to other kinds of being and knowledge. Instead 'study' becomes the repressed material of the University, it needs this work but it cannot bear it.
