Category: podcast
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Penny as Producer
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 30 – Penny as Producer Penny Rimbaud is best known as a founding member of the anarcho-punk collective Crass, as well as for his work as a poet, writer, and philosopher. But beyond these well-known aspects of his life and practice lies another, less frequently discussed dimension: his role as a…
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Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 29 Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues This episode is a discussion with Paul Buhle, Abigail Susik, and Penelope Rosemont about the newly released book Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues: Selected Writings on Popular Culture. This collection brings together legendary Chicago surrealist Franklin Rosemont’s writings on popular culture over…
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Band People
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 28 Band People with Franz Nicolay This episode is a recording of a seminar held at the University of Essex with Franz Nicolay on his book Band People. In it Franz Nicolay explores the working and creative lives of musicians. In it, he argues that to talk about the role of…
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Free Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Peter Brötzmann
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 27 Free Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Peter Brötzmann For this episode we have a discussion of the book Peter Brötzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Improvisation with its author Daniel Spicer and long time comrade and fellow radical theorist / free jazz musician Richard Gilman-Opalsky. In it we…
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We Don’t Need More Heroes
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 26: We Don’t Need More Heroes with Scorpio For this episode we talk with Brixton-based textile artist Scorpio about his life and work. Last summer a quest to learn more about the 1990s militant queer art collective Homocult led us to visiting “Iconic Queer,” an exhibition of Scorpio’s work at the…
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Shaping for Mediocrity
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 25 Shaping for Mediocrity For this episode, in light of the current sector wide university crisis in the UK, we present the recording of a seminar with Ronald Hartz, David Harvie, and Simon Lilley about their book Shaping for Mediocrity. In 2021, as part of a programme called Shaping for Excellence,…
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Jobs, Jive, & Joy
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 24 Jobs, Jive, & Joy with Bernard Marszalek & Peter Bloom For this episode we have a conversation with Bernard Marszalek and Peter Bloom about Bernard’s new book Jobs, Jive, & Joy: An Argument for the Utopian Spirit. In it we cover a wide range of topics including tech bros, the…
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No Authority No Self
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 23 No Authority No Self, or, Penny Rimbaud at the Substation As part of previewing and preparing for a larger project with Penny Rimbaud, this episode revisits a conversation with Penny from 2017. This was part of the “Stop the City… Revisited” installation which was part of “Discipline the City” exhibition…
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Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 22 Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital with Pil & Galia Kollectiv In this episode we chat with Pil and Galia Kollectiv to explore their new book, Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital. Stevphen was originally to take part in the book release event last autumn in…
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Feminist Antifascism v Contemporary Microfascism
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 21 Feminist Antifascism v Contemporary Microfascism In this episode of Minor Compositions we delve into the complex intersections of gender, power, and contemporary alt-right and neofascist politics with Jack Bratich and Ewa Majewska. Drawing on Bratich’s On Microfascism: Gender, Death, and War and Majewska’s Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common, the…
