Minor Compositions Podcast explores the unruly intersections of art, politics, and social struggle, tracing lines of flight through music, performance, literature, sport, and everyday life. Across its episodes, the podcast dives into avant-garde experiments, militant aesthetics, and radical practices — from surrealism to squatting, feminist antifascism to free jazz, football to revolutionary love. Each conversation maps the ways creative and collective practices resist commodification and open space for joy, refusal, and possibility. Guests include artists, musicians, writers, activists, and thinkers engaged in shaping counter-histories and emergent futures: discussing topics as varied as anarcho-punk provocations, the politics of logistics, mutual aid in disasters, the Surrealism of Bugs Bunny, feminist anti-fascism, and the deep commons. Whether examining the cracks in capitalist realism or celebrating the minor, the fugitive, and the improvised, Minor Compositions invites listeners to think and feel with those who refuse to be shaped for mediocrity — and who dance to rhythms of refusal instead. You can listen to the podcast on the Firefly Frequencies website. It is also available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music / Audible, Deezer, Podcast Addict, and Podchaser.
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Exploding Cinema
What might cinema look like without programmers, funding bodies, cultural gatekeepers or even conventional cinemas? In this episode, we discuss BOOM! The Exploding Cinema and the New London… Read episode details
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Fanon & Democracy
Frantz Fanon is most often read as a thinker of colonial violence, racial domination and revolutionary rupture. But what happens if we attend instead to the Fanon concerned… Read episode details
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Caliban & the Castle
For Heritage Open Days 2026, we took a copy of Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch to Colchester Castle and read several passages inside the building. In 1645,… Read episode details
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Fugitive Study, Autonomous Media
What becomes possible when study is detached from education, accreditation and the demand for individual improvement? And what kinds of social relations emerge when study is approached not… Read episode details
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Counter-Accounting, Refusal, and the Future of the Strike
In this episode we speak with Abe Walker and Callum Cant about how workers produce knowledge of their own exploitation – and when making that knowledge visible risks… Read episode details
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Disrupting the Transition
In this episode, we speak with Nicholas Beuret and Keir Milburn about ecological transition as a terrain of class struggle – not simply a technical shift in energy… Read episode details
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What’s the Use? Entanglement, Indebtedness, and Minor Socialities
In this episode, we speak with Erin Manning and Giovanni Marmont for a conversation about how use might be detached from productivity, mastery, and measurable achievement. Moving between… Read episode details
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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… Read episode details
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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,… Read episode details
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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… Read episode details
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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… Read episode details
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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… Read episode details
