Stefano Harney

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]

References

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