Minor Compositions understands publishing as more than making books. It is also a way of creating occasions for collective study: conversations, reading groups, workshops, screenings, launches and other forms of thinking together. Study Sessions gathers these activities: spaces where books can become starting points rather than finished objects, and where publishing extends into discussion, collaboration and collective inquiry. Below are current and recent Study Sessions, followed by an archive of earlier gatherings organised through Minor Compositions.<\/p>\n
Queer Punk Archives in Motion<\/a>. Team Dresch, Queeruption and cultures of queer DIY. Archival exploration session and discussion at MayDay Rooms. Anarchist Media as Collective Infrastructure<\/a>. Collective Discussion and Workshop at the London Anarchist Bookfair. 26 September 2026.<\/p>\n CERFI: Analysis Everywhere \u2013 London Book Release Events<\/a>. 16\u201318 September 2026.<\/p>\n Reading Group: Workers Against Capital: Reading Mario Tronti Sixty Years On<\/a>, February\u2013December 2026.<\/p>\n Totality and Feminist Life: Reading Silvia Federici\u2019s Writing on Luk\u00e1cs\u2019 Aesthetics<\/a> On Birds & Kitchen Tables: Conversations of\/in the Undercommons<\/a>, ongoing iterative event, May\u2013July 2023.<\/p>\n Weapons of Mass Instruction. Art, the State Form, and the NSK State in Time<\/a>, online seminar, May 1, 2023.<\/p>\n Emotions Go to Work Exhibition<\/a> Stop the City\u2026 Revisited<\/a> There is no authority but yourself\u2026 and there is no self<\/a> #WorldsUpsideDown<\/a> Gee Vaucher \u2013 Introspective Exhibition<\/a> Art & Anarchism Event<\/a> @ the 2016 London Anarchist Bookfair Adventures in Sound & Music Broadcast on the Music of John Gruntfest<\/a>, Resonance FM, 7 April 2016.<\/p>\n Occupation Culture<\/a> Fuel to Fight DS30<\/a> Retrograde London 2014<\/a> Class Wargames Book Launch, Collective Gaming, and Dance Party<\/a> nanopolitics, exhaustion, biopolitics: an evening of bodies and books<\/a> Mayday Screening The Condition of the Working Class<\/a> @ Wivenhoe The Politics of Workers\u2019 Inquiry Conference<\/a> Lessons of 2011: Three Theses on Political Organization<\/a> Models for a Peer-to-Peer Society<\/a> Six Impossible Politics Before Breakfast<\/a>: A Discussion on Art & Politics in an Age of Austerity New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Occupation<\/a> Commodities & Markets Seminar<\/a> I\u2019m so broke I can\u2019t even pay attention<\/a>: Rethinking Social Wealth In & Against Times of Austerity San Precario Network Screening + Discussion<\/a> Metropolitan Strategies, Psychogeographic Investigations<\/a> Curating Resistance :: Aesthetics & Ethics in Social Movement<\/a> Discipline & the Moving Image<\/a> This is Forever: An Exploration of Contemporary Autonomist Politics<\/a> Autonomism, Class Composition, and Cultural Studies<\/a> Provo, Autonomy, and Ludic Politics London<\/a> The Atrocity Organization<\/a>: JG Ballard & the Technologies of Psychopathology Management Imperceptible Strategies, Unidentified Autonomous Organizations<\/a> Connective Mutations<\/a>: Autonomy & Subjectivation in the Coming Century
\n30 September 2026<\/p>\nEarlier Gatherings<\/h2>\n
\nReading & Discussion Event Series January \u2013 April 2025<\/p>\n
\n19 January\u201324 March 2019
\nFirstsite, Colchester, UK<\/p>\n
\nOrganized as part of The Substation\u2019s \u201cDiscipline the City\u201d series<\/em>
\n23 August\u201323 November 2017<\/p>\n
\n19 August 2017, 7PM \u2013 The Substation, Singapore<\/p>\n
\n11 March\u20132 April 2017, Firstsite, Colchester<\/p>\n
\n12 November 2016\u201319 February 2017, Firstsite, Colchester<\/p>\n
\nSaturday 29 October 2016, 10AM\u20137PM<\/p>\n
\nSeminar and working session at May Day Rooms, 26 June 2015.<\/p>\n
\nTest Dept film & book event, 13 June 2015.<\/p>\n
\nAn evening of discussion in the shadow of the NSK State, The Horse Hospital.<\/p>\n
\nLondon, 25 October 2014.<\/p>\n
\nLondon, 9 October 2013.<\/p>\n
\n1 May 2013.<\/p>\n
\n2\u20133 May 2013 @ University of Essex.<\/p>\n
\nSeminar with Rodrigo Nunes, 12 March 2012.<\/p>\n
\nA seminar with Michel Bauwen, 12 December 2011.<\/p>\n
\nDiscussion on art and politics based on The Users Guide to Demanding the Impossible<\/em>, 6 July 2011.<\/p>\n
\nRelease event and discussion of The Occupation Cookbook<\/em> and New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Liberty<\/em>, 30 May 2011, London.<\/p>\n
\nSeminar on commodification and violence, 4 May 2011 @ the University of Essex.<\/p>\n
\nDiscussion on rethinking notions of social wealth and affect against conditions of austerity, 27 March 2011, 1PM @ The Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago.<\/p>\n
\n5 December 2010, 16 Beaver Street.<\/p>\n
\nA drifting seminar, Brighton, 26 October 2010.<\/p>\n
\nUniversity of Essex, 25 October 2010.<\/p>\n
\nAn evening of film curated by Zoe Beloff, Birkbeck Cinema, 11 June 2010.<\/p>\n
\nA joint event with Team Colors on the current state of autonomist politics, Portland, OR, 25 March 2010.<\/p>\n
\nA series of panels on cultural studies and autonomism planned as part of the Cultural Studies Association conference, Berkeley, 18\u20132- March 2010.<\/p>\n
\nWhite chickens, white bicycles, and the ludic politics of Dutch anarchism, The Foundry, 10 December 2009.<\/p>\n
\nWandering through the imagination, darkly, The Foundry, London, 10 November\u00a0 2009.<\/p>\n
\nA drifting seminar, London, 23 October 2009.<\/p>\n
\nSeminar with Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, 16 Beaver, New York, 3\u20136 September 2009.<\/p>\n