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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, Yogyakarta and Jakarta, Ferdi explores how queer and trans Muslims build meaningful lives within social, religious and political conditions that often refuse them recognition. The conversation moves through Indonesia’s…
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Publishing as Collective Infrastructure
What if a book wasn’t an endpoint but an infrastructure? Publishing as Collective Infrastructure challenges the idea of the book as a fixed object and reimagines publishing as a collective, political, and infrastructural practice. Emerging from the ServPub project, this book brings together artists, academics, technologists, feminist server collectives, and experimental publishers to expose how…
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Prosfygika, a powerful example of an urban common
Prosfygika, a powerful example of an urban common. It must be supported. Silvia Federici, May 2026 I did not know about Prosfygika. Thus, when some feminist friends, knowing my interest in the construction of commons, suggested a visit to it, I imagined we would go to a squatted building. I did not expect to find…
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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 the radical milieus that shaped it, emerging from the turbulent political and intellectual landscape of the 1960s and 70s. The discussion traces the overlapping trajectories of…
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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 collective knowledge production.The discussion begins with Gary Hall’s recent book Defund Culture, which challenges conventional calls to increase arts funding by asking a more fundamental question: what – and…
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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 Stevphen Shukaitis about The Wages of Dreamwork, co-written with Joanna Figiel. What unfolds is less a conventional author interview than a comradely and reflective exchange on the conditions, contradictions, and…
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Fugitive Study, Autonomous Media
Minor Compositions has always moved along lines that are less infrastructural than insurgent: less a publisher than a set of practices, a circulation of ideas, forms of study that refuses to settle. From Imaginal Machines to The Undercommons, from Precarious Rhapsody to Abolishing Capitalist Totality, what has been at stake is not simply the production of books, but the ongoing composition…
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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 understood not only as a political program but as a form of life. The conversation ranges across questions of political economy, ontology, and revolutionary subjectivity, considering how Marx’s critique of…
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Abolishing Capitalist Totality
Abolishing Capitalist Totality: What Is to Be Done under Real Subsumption? Edited by Anthony Iles & Mattin When capitalism feels inescapable, theory becomes a weapon to challenge fatalistic totalities. This book explores the limits of the colonization of everyday life by economic logic gone mad. Wherever we are we find ourselves choking, trapped in a…
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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 Legend of Ted Joans. Together we explore Joans as Beat Generation insider, jazz trumpeter, collage artist, Pan-Africanist, and self-styled Surrealist griot, tracing a life that unfolded as an ongoing experiment…
