The Under-Earth Glossary

Under-earth exists to be a teaching resource, to feed the revolutionary, radical,
more-than-political consciousness. Concerned with the inner life of the word and the
possibilities it can offer us, the under-earth glossary uses language as material to
establish fertile ground for the abolitionist and decolonial world-building project.
Rejecting the notion that the individual should be the decisive voice of academic inquiry,
in favor of the multi-vocal chorus, under-earth is disperse and decentered, constituted
by a web-like network of knowing. In favor of the non-sense, the piece-meal, and the
ghost-song, under-earth falls apart to come together anew. You are invited to enter this
theoretical imaginary space through an aesthetic and epistemological practice of
decomposition. Above all, the under-earth glossary is seeking an actionable definition of
freedom: freedom transformed into practices, movements, tangible ways to be in the
world. To articulate this definition, the glossary weaves together numerous threads
borrowed from the living network that is the revolutionary archive.