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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Feminist Antifascism v Contemporary Microfascism
In this episode of Minor Compositions we delve into the complex intersections of gender, power, and contemporary alt-right and neofascist politics with Jack Bratich and Ewa Majewska. Drawing… Read episode details
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The Arts of Logistics
This episode is a conversation around the new book The Arts of Logistics: Artistic Production in Supply Chain Capitalism by Michael Shane Boyle. For this conversation we are… Read episode details
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Emergent Assemblages of Relationist Football
For this episode we talk with Jamie Hamilton, a football coach and tactical writer based at Ayr United in Scotland. Hamilton is best known for coining the idea… Read episode details
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Anxiety as Vibration
For this episode we talk with we chat Ana Minozzo about her new book Anxiety as Vibration: A Psychosocial Cartography. What can anxiety do if approach anxiety not… Read episode details
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Militant Aesthetics
For this episode we talk with art historian and painter Martin Lang about this book Militant Aesthetics: Art Activism in the 21st Century. How are practices of art… Read episode details
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Sports & the Avant-Garde
For this episode we talk with Przemysław Strożek about the relationship between avant-garde arts and sports in the 1920s and 1930s. We discuss two of his books, one… Read episode details
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Class, Disasters, and Mutual Aid
For this episode we talk with John Preson and Rhiannon Firth about the relationship between class, disasters, and mutual aid. The conversation is formed mainly around re-visiting their… Read episode details
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Revolutionary Love & the Deep Commons
For this episode we talk with Matt York about his book Love and Revolution: A politics for the Deep Commons “Based on award-winning research, Love and Revolution brings… Read episode details
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Up Against the Real
For this episode we talk with Nadja Millner-Larsen about her book Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action. “With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen… Read episode details
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The Subhumans & Punk Historiography
For this episode we talk with Ian Glasper about his book Silence Is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans. In the conversation we cover broader issues of ‘punk… Read episode details
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Italian Operaismo
This episode of the Minor Compositions podcast is recorded as part of the Ultradependent Public School exhibition at BAK. For this episode we are talking with Gigi Roggero… Read episode details
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Autonomia and Art
This episode is a discussion with Jacopo Galimberi about this book Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962–1988) “During the 1960s and 1970s, Workerism and… Read episode details
