Stefano Harney
American activist and scholar
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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] Also, he has taught at Royal Holloway, University of London[5] as well as at the European Graduate School.[6][7] Currently, he is professor of transversal aesthetics at Academy Media Arts Cologne (KHM) [8]
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).[9] The text is a book-length series of essays that critiques the academy through a black radical lens.[10] 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][11] 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)[12]
- The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (co-authored by Fred Moten, Minor Compositions, 2013)[13]
- The Culture of Management (Routledge, 2008)[14]
- State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality (Duke University Press, 2002)[15]
- "Fragment on Kropotkin and Giuliani" in Social Text (Volume 20, Number 3 (72), Duke University Press, September 10, 2002)[16]
- Nationalism and Identity (Zed Books, 1996)[17]