Minor Compositions Podcast explores the unruly intersections of art, politics, and social struggle, tracing lines of flight through music, performance, literature, sport, and everyday life. Across its episodes, the podcast dives into avant-garde experiments, militant aesthetics, and radical practices — from surrealism to squatting, feminist antifascism to free jazz, football to revolutionary love. Each conversation maps the ways creative and collective practices resist commodification and open space for joy, refusal, and possibility. Guests include artists, musicians, writers, activists, and thinkers engaged in shaping counter-histories and emergent futures: discussing topics as varied as anarcho-punk provocations, the politics of logistics, mutual aid in disasters, the Surrealism of Bugs Bunny, feminist anti-fascism, and the deep commons. Whether examining the cracks in capitalist realism or celebrating the minor, the fugitive, and the improvised, Minor Compositions invites listeners to think and feel with those who refuse to be shaped for mediocrity — and who dance to rhythms of refusal instead. You can listen to the podcast on the Firefly Frequencies website. It is also available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music / Audible, Deezer, Podcast Addict, and Podchaser.
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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… Read episode details
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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,… Read episode details
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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… Read episode details
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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… Read episode details
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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… Read episode details
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Utopia in the Factory?
Discussion with Rhiannon Firth & John Preston on their new book Utopia in the Factory. Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics There’s long been this seductive idea that automation, AI,… Read episode details
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From Disalienation to Collective Care
Discussion with Elena Vogman & Marlon Miguel discussing the work of François Tosquelles and Jean Oury Born amidst the ruins of World War II and the shadow of… Read episode details
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Post-War Surrealism and Anti-authoritarianism
This discussion brings together Abigail Susik and Michael Löwy to explore the international history of surrealism after 1945, with a focus on its enduring anti-authoritarian spirit. Often misunderstood… Read episode details
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Universal Prostitution & the Crisis of Labor
This episode is a conversation with Jaleh Mansoor on the themes of her new book Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction: A Counterhistory. In this provocative work, Mansoor offers… Read episode details
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Feral Class
Untamed. Unheard. Unstoppable. For this episode with have a chat with Marc Garrett about his forthcoming book Feral Class. The book is Marc Garrett’s raw and resonant memoir… Read episode details
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Return to the 36 Enclosures
It’s summer and we’re feeling a bit lazy… so rather than record something new, for this episode we’re presenting a recording of a seminar discussion between Stefano Harney… Read episode details
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Communism After Deleuze
Discussion with Alex Taek-Gwang Lee about his new book Communism After Deleuze. What if communism was always the secret engine of Deleuze’s thought? This episode uncovers a hidden… Read episode details












