Minor Compositions

Counter-Accounting, Refusal, and the Future of the Strike

In this episode we speak with Abe Walker and Callum Cant about how workers produce knowledge of their own exploitation – and when making that knowledge visible risks strengthening the systems of management and control they oppose. Beginning with...

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Disrupting the Transition

In this episode, we speak with Nicholas Beuret and Keir Milburn about ecological transition as a terrain of class struggle – not simply a technical shift in energy systems, but a contested reorganisation of investment, work, infrastructure and...

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What’s the Use? Entanglement, Indebtedness, and Minor Socialities

In this episode, we speak with Erin Manning and Giovanni Marmont for a conversation about how use might be detached from productivity, mastery, and measurable achievement. Moving between studious use, the pragmatics of the useless, colonial property,...

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Enduring Otherwise

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 7 Enduring Otherwise  In this episode, we talk with Ferdiansyah Thajib about his book Enduring Otherwise: Muslim Queer and Trans Worldmaking in Indonesia. Drawing on ethnographic research in Aceh,...

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The Institution Negated?

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 6 The Institution Negated?  In this episode we are joined by John Foot, Susana Caló, and Godofredo Enes Pereira for a wide-ranging conversation on the publication in English of The Negated Institution, and...

Defund Culture by Any Means Necessary

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 5 Defund Culture by Any Means Necessary  In this episode owe are joined by Gary Hall and Seth Wheeler for a wide-ranging conversation on cultural funding, radical publishing, and the changing conditions of...

Wages Against Dreamwork

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 4 Wages Against Dreamwork  In this episode of Minor Compositions, the usual format is playfully overturned as Richard Gilman-Opalsky stages a friendly “revolt,” taking over hosting duties to interview...

Communism Actually

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 3 Communism Actually In this episode of the Minor Compositions, we discuss Communist Ontologies with its authors Richard Gilman-Opalsky and Bruno Gulli, exploring their proposal that communism be...

Jazz is My Religion, Ted Joans is My Perspective

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 2 Jazz is My Religion, Ted Joans is My Perspective   In this episode of the Minor Compositions, we are joined by Steven Belletto and Grégory Pierrot, in order to discuss Steven’s book Black Surrealist. The...

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni

S2E1 – In girum imus nocteet consumimur igni Season 2 opens with a conversation with Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson – filmmakers, artists, and co-founders of Firefly Frequencies – reflecting on radio as a collective, political, and affective...

Communize the city

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 43 Communize the city  This episode begins with Kike España’ presenting his essay “Communize the City: Towards an Insurgent Vicinity,” a text that examines the contemporary urban condition through the lens of...

We Are Making a Podcast About Mark Fisher

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 42 We Are Making a Podcast About Mark Fisher  In this episode, we speak with artists Sophie Mellor and Simon Poulter of Close and Remote about their sprawling, collaborative, and genre-bending project We Are Making...

Alifuru World: Stateless Histories, Decolonial Futures

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 1 Episode 41 Alifuru World: Stateless Histories, Decolonial Futures  Discussion with Ferdiansyah Thajib & Hypatia Vourloumis on the forthcoming book Anarchy in Alifuru: The History of Stateless Societies in the...

Utopia in the Factory?

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 1 Episode 40 Utopia in the Factory?  Discussion with Rhiannon Firth & John Preston on their new book Utopia in the Factory. Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics There’s long been this seductive idea that...

From Disalienation to Collective Care. Institutional Psychotherapy as Resistance

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 1 Episode 39 From Disalienation to Collective Care. Institutional Psychotherapy as Resistance Discussion with Elena Vogman & Marlon Miguel discussing the work of François Tosquelles and Jean Oury  Born amidst...

Post-War Surrealism and Anti-authoritarianism

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 1 Episode 38 Post-War Surrealism and Anti-authoritarianism  This discussion brings together Abigail Susik and Michael Löwy to explore the international history of surrealism after 1945, with a focus on its enduring...

Universal Prostitution & the Crisis of Labor

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 1 Episode 37 Universal Prostitution & the Crisis of Labor  This episode is a conversation with Jaleh Mansoor on the themes of her new book Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction: A Counterhistory. In...

Feral Class

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 1 Episode 36 Feral Class Untamed. Unheard. Unstoppable. For this episode with have a chat with Marc Garrett about his forthcoming book Feral Class. The book is Marc Garrett’s raw and resonant memoir of surviving –...

Return to the 36 Enclosures

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 1 Episode 35 It’s summer and we’re feeling a bit lazy… so rather than record something new, for this episode we’re presenting a recording of a seminar discussion between Stefano Harney & Stevphen Shukaitis that...

Communism After Deleuze

Minor Compositions Season 1 Episode 34 Communism After Deleuze  Discussion with Alex Taek-Gwang Lee about his new book Communism After Deleuze.  What if communism was always the secret engine of Deleuze’s thought? This episode uncovers a hidden...