Category: Study Sessions
-
Queer Punk Archives in Motion
Queer Punk Archives in Motion. Team Dresch, Queeruption and cultures of queer DIY Wednesday 30 September 2026, 3-6pm @ MayDay Rooms, London Before pioneering queercore band Team Dresch return to London for the first time in decades, join us at MayDay Rooms for an afternoon exploring the archives of queer punk, DIY culture and collective…
-
Anarchist Media as Collective Infrastructure
12:45 – 13:45 @ the London Anarchist Bookfair, September 26th, Cinema Bar in Richmix What if anarchist media were understood not simply as producing books, magazines, podcasts or online content, but as part of the infrastructure through which people meet, think, organise and act together? Taking ideas around publishing as collective infrastructure as a starting…
-
Workers Against Capital: Reading Mario Tronti Sixty Years On
2026 marks the 60th anniversary of the first publication of Workers and Capital, Mario Tronti’s landmark intervention in Marxist theory and political practice. To mark this anniversary – and the long-awaited appearance of the text in English – Minor Compositions and the COVER Research Centre will host a year-long, monthly reading group dedicated to a…
-
Weapons of Mass Instruction. Art, the State Form, and the NSK State in Time
This event was a release event and discussion of the new book on the NSK State in Time, Weapons of Mass Instruction, edited by Alexander Nym. NSK & the State: Founded in 1992, after Slovenia’s secession from the crumbling Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, NSK State in Time was conceived as both a continuation and dissolution…
-
On Birds & Kitchen Tables
On Birds & Kitchen Tables: Conversations of/in the Undercommons “The weapon of theory is a conference of the birds. The kitchen table is its public and its publisher.” – Stefano Harney & Fred Moten In the ten years since it was published, one of the most striking things about The Undercommons as a text was…
-
Emotions Go to Work Exhibition
Emotions Go to Work Exhibition 19 January – 24 March 2019 Firstsite, Colchester, UK Ever since the 19th century, people have been collecting scientific data from the human body and cataloguing emotions. Today, smart devices try to gain our trust in order to compile information. We create machines in our image, shaped to serve our…
-
Stop the City… Revisited
Stop the City… Revisited Organized as part of The Substation’s “Discipline the City” series 23 August – 23 November 2017 Born out of the anarcho-punk scene, Stop the City demonstrations of 1983-84 were a series of actions and interventions to blockade and disrupt ‘The City’ (the financial district of London). Protesters and activists coalesced around…
-
There is no authority but yourself… and there is no self
There is no authority but yourself… and there is no self 19 August – 7PM – The Substation, Singapore Punk is often narrated as a kind of year zero, a total break with the past. But this is far from the case. Nowhere is that clearer through the anarcho-punk punk Crass, who taking the phrase…
-
#WorldsUpsideDown Exhibition
#WorldsUpsideDown 11 March – 2 April @ Firstsite, Colchester Riots. Revolts. Revolution. All flashing moments which throw the world – and our relationship with it – in question. From the uprising against the Russian Czar one hundred years ago to the Arab spring and protests against war, austerity and the continuing failure of politics as…
-
Gee Vaucher – Introspective Exhibition
Gee Vaucher – Introspective Exhibition 12 November, 2016 – 19 February, 2017 Firstsite, Colchester, UK Gee Vaucher (1945) is an internationally renowned political artist living outside Epping, Essex. She is best known for her radical creativity, montages and iconic artwork for the infamous anarcho-pacifist band Crass. Employing an eclectic range of styles and techniques, coupled with…
