Fred Moten & Stefano Harney

with STEFANO HARNEY, FRED MOTEN

As part of the framework of the Decolonial Studies Program (DSP) of the Academy of the Arts of the World (ADKDW), various collaborations with artists, thinkers and activists took place in 2022. One of the collaborations was the discourse series On Violence in collaboration with the Theater Hebbel-Am-Ufer (HAU) in Berlin. In addition to seminars, workshops, lectures and reading groups with renowned guests on anti-, de- and post-colonial theory and practice, the DSP publishes essays and texts from these events in the form of a series of small publications. The authors of the publication series will be: Elvira Espejo Ayca, Danielle Almeida, Elsa Dorlin, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Vanessa Eileen Thompson and Daniel Loick. The series will be published through the collective publication and production platform transversal.at in German and English both in print and online.

In their joint works The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Minor Compositions, 2013) and All Incomplete (Minor Compositions, 2021), the two authors Stefano Harney and Fred Moten address questions both implicitly and explicitly: What forms of visibility or invisibility are inherent in colonial and industrial logistics and in neocolonial and neoliberal structures? Invited by the Academy of the Arts oft he World (ADKDW) Cologne and Theater Hebbel-Am-Ufer (HAU) Berlin, Harney and Moten talk in their online lecture ON VIOLENCE #2 Stefano Harney & Fred Moten about the difference between violence and brutality and their impact on processes of subjectivation in our present. The talk, originally held in English as a conversation, is now published as a book in English and German versions. The series ON VIOLENCE was curated by Margarita Tsomou and Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz.