Stefano Harney Explained

Stefano Harney is an American activist and scholar. Prior to relocating to Brazil,^[1] Harney taught at Singapore Management University, but was dismissed in part for awarding all his students A grades.^{[2] [3] [4]} Since then, he has taught at Royal Holloway, University of London^[5] as well as at the European Graduate School.^{[6] [7]}

He is a long-time collaborator with the 2020 MacArthur Fellows Program poet and scholar Fred Moten, as well as the scholar and current Barbadian ambassador to Brazil Tonika Sealy-Thompson.

Education

In 1985, Harney received a BA in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University. In 1988, he received a MA in American Studies from New York University. In 1993, he received a PhD from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge.^[6]

Collaboration With Fred Moten

Harney co-authored The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study with Fred Moten (Autonomedia/Minor Compositions, 2013).^[8] The text is a book-length series of essays that critiques the academy through a black radical lens.^[9] Moten and Harney have been friends for over 30 years and collaborators over 15 years; they frequently appear together at panels, interviews, and academic talks.^{[4] [10]} The two are currently preparing for the publication of their second book together, All Incomplete, forthcoming from Autonomedia in 2021.^{[1] [5]}

Works

• The Liberal Arts and Management Education: A Global Agenda for Change (co-authored by Howard Thomas, Cambridge University Press, 2020)^[11]
• The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (co-authored by Fred Moten, Minor Compositions, 2013)^[12]
• The Culture of Management (Routledge, 2008)^[13]
• State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality (Duke University Press, 2002)^[14]
• "Fragment on Kropotkin and Giuliani" in Social Text (Volume 20, Number 3 (72), Duke University Press, September 10, 2002)^[15]
• Nationalism and Identity (Zed Books, 1996)^[16]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Refusing Completion: A Conversation - Journal #116 March 2021 - e-flux. www.e-flux.com.
2. Web site: SMU reviews 'bogus' grades for module after professor gives all of his 169 business students an A. May 24, 2019. The Straits Times.
3. Web site: SMU prof gave all 169 students A grade because he is so done with grading on a bell curve. mothership.sg.
4. Web site: The Indy. www.theindy.org.
5. Web site: MOTEN-HARNEY | Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory. aghct.org.
6. Web site: Stefano Harney.
7. Web site: Stefano Harney & Fred Moten - Faculty Interview - 2019-08-07. www.youtube.com.
8. Fred Moten's Radical Critique of the Present. David. Wallace. The New Yorker.
9. https://www.autonomedia.org/node/181
10. Web site: CSSJ | Brown University. cssj.brown.edu.
11. Book: The Liberal Arts and Management Education: A Global Agenda for Change. Howard. Thomas. Stefano. Harney. January 30, 2020. Cambridge University Press. 9781316997529. Google Books.
12. Book: The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. Stefano. Harney. Fred. Moten. March 12, 2013. Minor Compositions. 9781570273148. Google Books.
13. Book: Harney, Stefano. The Culture of Management. March 12, 2008. Routledge. 9780415930697. Google Books.
14. Book: Harney, Stefano. State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality. July 2, 2002. Duke University Press. 9780822384069. Google Books.
15. Web site: Volume 20 Issue 3 (72) | Social Text | Duke University Press.
16. Book: Nationalism and Identity: Culture and the Imagination in a Caribbean Diaspora. Corbin. Harney. Stefano. Harney. April 15, 1996. Zed Books. 9781856493758. Google Books.