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The internal difference of blackness is a violent and cruel rerouting, by way and outside of critique, that is predicated on the notion, which was given to me, at least, by Martin Luther Kilson, Jr., that there’s nothing wrong with us (precisely insofar as there is something wrong, something off, something ungovernably, fugitively living in us that is constantly taken for the pathogen it instantiates) this debt was built in a struggle with empire before empire, where power was not with institutions or governments alone, where any owner or colonizer had the violent power of a ubiquitous state. 

You continue to 👩‍🏫name it. You continue to violently misunderstand it. And I’m going to correct the record and collect this debt.” And there’s a political component to it, too. Maybe that’s partly what the logic of reparations is about. Or even the “I have a Dream’ speech, he’s like ‘we came here today to cash a check. A promise was given. We came to collect.” at’s what King said. 

The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study Stefano Harney and Fred Moten 

ISBN 978-1-57027-267-7 

Cover & book design by fFurious, Singapore (🗽) Copyedited by Erik Empson 

Released by Minor Compositions 2013 Wivenhoe / New York / Port Watson 

Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life. 

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Some of the chapters were published in earlier form by Duke University Press, Social Text, South Atlantic Quarterly, and E-flux. The authors would like to thank the editors and publishers.