Author: Minor Compositions
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Protocols for Postcapitalist Economic Expression
Protocols for Postcapitalist Economic Expression. Agency, Finance and Sociality in the New Economic Space Dick Bryan, Jorge Lopez and Akseli Virtanen What would an Internet native economic system look like? Could economic power be systematically shared amongst individuals and their self-defined groups, with no central economic authority? And could that system secure collectively defined social…
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Italian Operaismo
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 11: Italian Operaismo with Gigi Roggero This episode of the Minor Compositions podcast is recorded as part of the Ultradependent Public School exhibition at BAK. For this episode we are talking with Gigi Roggero about his book Italian Operaismo: Genealogy, History, Method. In this conversation we cover a range of topics…
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On Birds & Kitchen Tables
On Birds & Kitchen Tables: Conversations of/in the Undercommons “The weapon of theory is a conference of the birds. The kitchen table is its public and its publisher.” – Stefano Harney & Fred Moten In the ten years since it was published, one of the most striking things about The Undercommons as a text was…
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Autonomia and Art
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 10: Autonomia and Art with Jacopo Galimberti This episode is a discussion with Jacopo Galimberi about this book Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962–1988) “During the 1960s and 1970s, Workerism and Autonomia were prominent Marxist currents. However, it is rarely acknowledged that these movements inspired many visual…
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Compound Lyricism with Senyawa
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 9: Compound Lyricism with Senyawa This episode intersperses a performance by experimental Indonesian doom folk metal band Senyawa (recorded in Folkestone in April 2022) with a discussion with their vocalist and lyricist Rully Shabara. The interview covers topics including his approach to writing lyrics, use of allegory and imagery, and how…
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After the Internet
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 8: After the Internet with Tiziana Terranova For this episode we have a discussion with Tiziana Terranova about her recently released book After the Internet: Digital Networks between Capital and the Common. We cover a range of topics including the shift from the internet as open network to the rise of…
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Hypothesis 891
Hypothesis 891. Beyond the Roadblocks Colectivo Situaciones & MTD Solano Translated by Dina Khorasanee & Liz Mason-Deese Important collective theorization on the meaning of the 2001 Argentinean uprising In 2001 a mass popular uprising overthrew the neoliberal government in Argentina: thousands upon thousands of people, both in organizations and on their own, took to the…
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Feminism, Punk and the Avant-Garde
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 7: Feminism, Punk and the Avant-Garde with Becky Binns For this episode we have a discussion with Becky Binns about her recently released book Gee Vaucher: Beyond punk, feminism and the avant-garde. We cover a a range off topics including Gee’s work in relationship with punk and artistic countercultures, as well…
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Out of the Clear
Out of the Clear Erin Manning Out of the Clear begins with the question of the clearing: What operations are at work when land is cleared, or thought is cleared, of all that grows wild? Clearing, the settler-colonial act of defining a territory and producing a border, clears the world of the thickets of all…
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Paths to Autonomy
Paths to Autonomy Editor: Noah Brehmer Assistant editor: Vaida Stepanovaitė Collection exploring the history and development of autonomous politics in Lithuania and Eastern Europe A path is created when a direction is taken, its production marks the imbrication of personal choice, communal action and subhuman (structural, historical, ecological) conditionings. We are at the same time…
