'SENSE OF BELONGING'

"The standpoint, the home territory, chez lui – Markman’s off the mark, blind but insightful, mistranslation is illuminative, among his own, signifying a relationality that displaces the already displaced impossibility of home. Can this being together in homelessness, this interplay of the refusal of what has been refused, this undercommon appositionality, be a place from which emerges neither self-consciousness nor knowledge of the other but an improvisation that proceeds from somewhere on the other side of an unasked question? Not simply to be among his own; but to be among his own in dispossession, to be among the ones who cannot own, the ones who have nothing and who, in having nothing, have everything. This is the sound of an unasked question."

Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons : Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Wivenhoe: Minor Compositions, 2013), 96.