[Photo: Ryan Quan from NYU News] by James McMaster and Olivia Michiko Gagnon What follows is not an account of escalating strategies and spectacular confrontations. That can be found in the news. Consider this a fragmentary homage to and audit of the ideological and intimate micropolitics of our movement. We are two friends writing from within the Sanctuary Campus… Read more →
All those who struggle within, against and beyond the neoliberal, neocolonial university are invited to join us on March 25 (15:45-17:15 EST) for a special online/offline strategy session, broadcasting live from the Organizing Equality conference in London, Ontario. This session aims to share and discuss the tactics and strategies organizers are using to create spaces of autonomy and solidarity. See… Read more →
CALL FOR PROVOCATIONS (April 30, 2017) The 2016 US election has been framed as both a decisive break from “politics as usual” and as a continuation and intensification of longstanding racialized, gendered, and sexualized global class warfare. In this allegedly post-truth era, the university seems to have emerged as a key site of struggle, from the sanctuary campus movements to… Read more →
The Undercommoning Collective is looking for new members to help organize a network of militant refusal and creative solidarity within, against and beyond the neoliberal, neocolonial university. If you might be interested in working with us, we encourage you to join us on one of two “open house” online conversations: Tuesday, December 6, 8pm EST Sunday, December 11, 5pm EST… Read more →
This offering is part of Undercommoning’s Provocations series. If you would like to contribute, please see our call for provocations. Pleonastic Poesy: Uncontrollable Knowledge | Liberated Vulnerability Scott W. Schwartz \ \ \ G R O W T H / / / Stumbling clusterdust swarms beneath the flesh of knowledge. Bubbling below the pores of the dominant epistemology is molten vulnerability,… Read more →
This offering is part of Undercommoning’s Provocations series. If you would like to contribute, please see our call for provocations. (a questionnaire by Dean Spade) Do you think you might be the worst person? Do you think you might be the best person? Do you feel overwhelmed trying to keep up with news of contemporary travesties? Do you get more excited… Read more →
Organize an autonomous local event October 14-21! We, the Undercommoning Collective, invite all those over whom the neoliberal, neocolonial university casts its shadow, all those who struggle within, against and beyond the university-as-such, to join us the week of October 14-21, 2016 for a global coordinated decentralized day of radical study and action. We encourage local organizers to plan an… Read more →
