Category: podcast
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Anxiety as Vibration
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 18 Anxiety as Vibration with Ana Minozzo For this episode we talk with we chat Ana Minozzo about her new book Anxiety as Vibration: A Psychosocial Cartography. What can anxiety do if approach anxiety not simply as a problem to be solved, but also as a potential site of rupture and…
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Militant Aesthetics
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 17 Militant Aesthetics with Martin Lang For this episode we talk with art historian and painter Martin Lang about this book Militant Aesthetics: Art Activism in the 21st Century. How are practices of art activism changing in the current political and media climate? What tensions exist within these forms of political…
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Sports & the Avant-Garde
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 16 Sports & the Avant-Garde with Przemysław Strożek For this episode we talk with Przemysław Strożek about the relationship between avant-garde arts and sports in the 1920s and 1930s. We discuss two of his books, one as editor: Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900–1945); and one as sole author: Picturing the…
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Class, Disasters, and Mutual Aid
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 15 Class, Disasters, and Mutual Aid with John Preston and Rhiannon Firth For this episode we talk with John Preson and Rhiannon Firth about the relationship between class, disasters, and mutual aid. The conversation is formed mainly around re-visiting their 2020 book Coronavirus, Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom…
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Revolutionary Love & the Deep Commons
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 14: Revolutionary Love & the Deep Commons with Matt York For this episode we talk with Matt York about his book Love and Revolution: A politics for the Deep Commons “Based on award-winning research, Love and Revolution brings classical and contemporary anarchist thought into a mutually beneficial dialogue with a global…
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Up Against the Real
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 13: Up Against the Real with Nadja Millner-Larsen For this episode we talk with Nadja Millner-Larsen about her book Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action. “With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to…
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The Subhumans & Punk Historiography
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 12: The Subhumans & Punk Historiography with Ian Glasper For this episode we talk with Ian Glasper about his book Silence Is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans. In the conversation we cover broader issues of ‘punk historiography’ and documenting more marginal musical, artistic, and political milieus that one is a…
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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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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…
