The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study is a collection of essays by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, published in 2013.

The Undercommons is composed of essays written by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, alumni of Harvard University who met while at the school.

[2] In 2018, The Undercommons was translated into Spanish by Cristina Rivera Garza, Marta Malo, and Juan Pablo, and published by Cooperativa Cráter Invertido and La Campechana Mental.

[6] In T in 2016, Maggie Nelson listed The Undercommons as one of her ten favorite books, describing it as a "difficult, beautiful, vertiginous, fortifying and enlivening piece of work" about concepts including "study, debt, surround, planning and the shipped.

"[7] A 2018 article about Fred Moten by Jesse McCarthy in Harvard Magazine described The Undercommons as a manifesto, characterizing it as "an analysis of alienated academic labor at the contemporary American university" but also a more radical "manual for free thinking".