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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…
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Abolishing Capitalist Totality
Abolishing Capitalist Totality: What Is to Be Done under Real Subsumption? Edited by Anthony Iles & Mattin When capitalism feels inescapable, theory becomes a weapon to challenge fatalistic totalities. This book explores the limits of the colonization of everyday life by economic logic gone mad. Wherever we are we find ourselves choking, trapped in a…
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Jazz is My Religion, Ted Joans is My Perspective
In this episode of the Minor Compositions, we are joined by Steven Belletto and Grégory Pierrot, in order to discuss Steven’s book Black Surrealist. The Legend of Ted Joans. Together we explore Joans as Beat Generation insider, jazz trumpeter, collage artist, Pan-Africanist, and self-styled Surrealist griot, tracing a life that unfolded as an ongoing experiment…
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In girum imus nocteet consumimur igni
Season 2 opens with a conversation with Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson – filmmakers, artists, and co-founders of Firefly Frequencies – reflecting on radio as a collective, political, and affective medium. Moving between the history of autonomous radio, projects such as Lullabies for the Revolution and Terminal Beach, and collaborations including the Gaza Biennale, the…
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CERFI – Analysis Everywhere
CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira Between the radical energies of the 1960s and the shifting terrains of the 1980s, a group in France quietly detonated the boundaries of politics, psychiatry, and collective life. CERFI – the Centre for Institutional Study, Research, and Training – wasn’t your typical…
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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…
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Communize the city
This episode begins with Kike España’ presenting his essay “Communize the City: Towards an Insurgent Vicinity,” a text that examines the contemporary urban condition through the lens of financial brutalism, before segueing into a discussion of themes from it. España argues that cities have become logistical infrastructures of extraction, where financialization, automation, and real-estate speculation…
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We Are Making a Podcast About Mark Fisher
In this episode, we speak with artists Sophie Mellor and Simon Poulter of Close and Remote about their sprawling, collaborative, and genre-bending project We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher. The conversation traces the origins of the film: how an initial spark in Fisher’s writing grew into a hybrid work that fuses documentary, performance,…
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Alifuru World: Stateless Histories, Decolonial Futures
Discussion with Ferdiansyah Thajib & Hypatia Vourloumis on the forthcoming book Anarchy in Alifuru: The History of Stateless Societies in the Maluku Islands by Bima Satria Putra Putra’s book traces the histories of the Alifuru peoples – those who refused incorporation into the state formations of Ternate, Tidore, colonial empires, and the modern Indonesian nation-state.…
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A Studious Use
A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons Giovanni Marmont What if study was not about learning, improvement, accreditation? What if use was not about intentionality, function, ownership? A Studious Use invites readers to reconsider the habitual logics and material priorities at play in practices of both study and use. It examines their potential and actual…
