Category: Authors
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Fables of Re-Enchantment
What might re-enchantment mean in a world organised around productivity, rationalisation and the reduction of many ways of knowing and living to one? In this episode, we discuss Fables of Re-Enchantment with anthropologist Stefania Consigliere. Drawing on three decades of work in medical anthropology and ethnopsychiatry, Consigliere describes how encounters with radically different understandings of…
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The Development of Lukács Realism
The Development of Lukács’ Realism Silvia Federici An unpublished early text that shows Silvia Federici working through questions of realism, art, and aesthetics. Written in 1980 and never published, The Development of Lukács’ Realism reveals a lesser known early chapter in the intellectual trajectory of Silvia Federici. Best known for her groundbreaking feminist analyses of…
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CERFI: Analysis Everywhere – London Book Release Events
From 16–18 September, Minor Compositions marked the publication of CERFI: Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry by Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira with three events across London. The book reconstructs the history and practices of CERFI – the Centre for Institutional Study, Research, and Training, co-founded by Félix Guattari – and its experiments…
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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 as preparation for a qualification or career, but as something worth doing in itself? Here are are joined by Eli Meyerhoff, author of Beyond Education: Radical Studying…
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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 studious use, the pragmatics of the useless, colonial property, football, maple syrup, improvised infrastructures, and the struggle to reclaim time, they explore forms of collective life grounded…
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Publishing as Collective Infrastructure
What if a book wasn’t an endpoint but an infrastructure? Publishing as Collective Infrastructure challenges the idea of the book as a fixed object and reimagines publishing as a collective, political, and infrastructural practice. Emerging from the ServPub project, this book brings together artists, academics, technologists, feminist server collectives, and experimental publishers to expose how…
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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, and the radical milieus that shaped it, emerging from the turbulent political and intellectual landscape of the 1960s and 70s. The discussion traces the overlapping trajectories of…
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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 The Wages of Dreamwork, co-written with Joanna Figiel. What unfolds is less a conventional author interview than a comradely and reflective exchange on the conditions, contradictions, and…
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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
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, ontology, and revolutionary subjectivity, considering how Marx’s critique of…
