yesterday, in a seminar with fred moten, he told us that he had made a mistake with the "undercommons". that everyone who reads it gets it wrong. he said, "it's not an instruction manual," it's a critique of any academic that might take it as one.

Finalizing my Writing for Lit syllabus for Queens College, and landed on the question of "Where is Literature?", asking students to question where we find literary acts/production. Reading list so far: Blanchot, Benjamin, LANGUAGE poets, Jameson, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Erica Hunt, Amiri Baraka...