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 of forms of life that exceed their capture. That movement now takes a new turn. We are shifting the hosting of our books to the Internet Archive – not as a technical adjustment, but as an alignment. With 70 books now freely available, the archive begins to take on a different kind of density: less a catalogue than a constellation of struggles, studies, and unfinished experiments in common. A re-siting of the work within a commons that is not owned, enclosed, or optimized for extraction. A place where texts can linger, drift, and be found again – circulated not as content, but as tools, provocations, and companions.
This move gathers together a long trajectory. The fugitive planning of The Undercommons finds new corridors of passage. The insurgent cartographies of Squatting in Europe and Occupation Culture resonate differently when housed in an archive built on shared access. The speculative infrastructures of Protocols for Postcapitalist Economic Expression meet a platform that, however imperfectly, gestures toward non-proprietary futures. The militant research of CERFI, Brian Massumi and Erin Manning’s process vocabularies, the unruly pedagogies of Unlearning Exercises and Unlearning Routines of the Impossible – all take on renewed force when removed from the quiet capture of corporate hosting.
There is something fitting, too, in how these texts assemble here: Feral Class alongside Anarchy in Alifuru, Unsettled next to States of Divergence, Compound Lyricism echoing against Fables of Re-enchantment. Across them runs a shared insistence: that thought is not a luxury, but a practice of transformation; that theory is not separate from struggle, but one of its modes; that study is collective, unfinished, and often illegible to the logics that would contain it. To relocate these works is to reassert that commitment. Against neurocapitalist capture, against the soft architectures of platform dependency, against the enclosure of intellectual life within venture-backed ecosystems. We choose a different kind of persistence. Not permanence as stasis, but endurance as circulation. Not visibility as metric, but accessibility as condition. The Internet Archive is not outside history, nor beyond contradiction. But it offers a terrain closer to what these books have always been doing: building archives of the present for futures that are not yet decided.
So this is an invitation. To read The Wages of Dreamwork as a map of cultural labor’s contradictions, and then to move through Combination Acts as a set of collective tactics. To encounter Neurocapitalism alongside Dissemblage, tracing how machinic and cognitive captures intertwine – and how they might be undone. To take up Paths to Autonomy, Hypothesis 891, or Revolutions in Reverse not as documents of the past, but as unfinished propositions. To follow the lines from Organization after Social Media and Don’t Network into new experiments in coordination beyond platforms. To sit with All Incomplete, where the very idea of completion gives way to ongoing study. And to keep going. Because Minor Compositions has never been about the archive as a repository. It is about the archive as a relay. A space where ideas are not stored, but set in motion again – taken up, misused, extended, and transformed.
Now, more than ever, these books belong where they can circulate freely. You can find them there. You can download them, share them, teach with them, argue against them, write through them. What matters is that they continue to move. What matters is that study continues.
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