Category: Authors
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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
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 understood not only as a political program but as a form of life. The conversation ranges across questions of political economy,…
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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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CERFI – Analysis Everywhere
CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira Between the radical energies of the 1960s and the shifting terrains of the 1980s, a group in France quietly detonated the boundaries of politics, psychiatry, and collective life. CERFI – the Centre for Institutional Study, Research, and Training – wasn’t your typical…
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A Studious Use
A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons Giovanni Marmont What if study was not about learning, improvement, accreditation? What if use was not about intentionality, function, ownership? A Studious Use invites readers to reconsider the habitual logics and material priorities at play in practices of both study and use. It examines their potential and actual…
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Unsettled
Unsettled Erin Manning Explores what it means to be claimed, not just by blood, but by history, land, and the fragile web of human connection. To belong is never a simple matter. For Erin Manning, ancestry has always been more of an entanglement than a strict lineage: a collection of stories, fabulations, and echoes of…
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Anarchy in Alifuru
Anarchy in Alifuru: The History of Stateless Societies in the Maluku Islands Bima Satria Putra In the sprawling seas of the Maluku Islands lies a forgotten history – not of kings and sultans, but of people who lived without them. Anarchy in Alifuru reclaims the stories of the stateless societies of eastern Indonesia, revealing a world…
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Feral Class
Untamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class artist… Art on the Margins, Life Without Permission Feral Class is Marc Garrett’s deeply personal and thought-provoking exploration of his early years, chronicling his journey as a working-class artist navigating a world that often rejects them. Through humorous, vivid storytelling and incisive critique, Garrett explores…
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States of Divergence
States of Divergence Sven Lütticken In States of Divergence, Sven Lütticken invites readers into an exploration of history as accelerating catastrophe – and of alternative, oppositional, divergent practices in life, art and revolutionary thought. Set against the backdrop of global crises, from climate change to pandemics, Lütticken dissects contemporary cultural and political practices that attempt to…
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Unlearning Routines of the Impossible
Unlearning Routines of the Impossible Edited by Janine Armin and Annette Krauss What are the struggles, entanglements, and joys of practicing unlearning in predominantly western contexts? Unlearning Routines of the Impossible responds to this question through revisiting the artistic research projects Sites for Unlearning, (co-)initiated by Annette Krauss. The sites are experimental gatherings where the…
