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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Compound Lyricism with Senyawa
This episode intersperses a performance by experimental Indonesian doom folk metal band Senyawa (recorded in Folkestone in April 2022) with a discussion with their vocalist and lyricist Rully… Read episode details
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After the Internet
For this episode we have a discussion with Tiziana Terranova about her recently released book After the Internet: Digital Networks between Capital and the Common. We cover a… Read episode details
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Feminism, Punk and the Avant-Garde
For this episode we have a discussion with Becky Binns about her recently released book Gee Vaucher: Beyond punk, feminism and the avant-garde. We cover a a range… Read episode details
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Squatting, Art, and Gentrification
For this episode we have a discussion with Clarrie Pope and Alan W Moore around squatting, art, and gentrification, as well as a range of related topics. The… Read episode details
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The Weight of the Printed Word
In this episode we have a conversation with Steve Wright, about his book The Weight of the Printed Word: Text, Context and Militancy in Operaismo. In it we… Read episode details
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Surrealism and the War on Work
In this episode we have a conversation with Abigail Susik, about her book Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work. We cover a range of topics including the… Read episode details
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Football and Radical Politics
For this episode, as a preview for the publication of Paolo Sollier’s book Kicks, Spits, and Headers. The Autobiographical Reflections of an Accidental Footballer we have a conversation… Read episode details
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Communizing Publishing
For this first episode we have a conversation with Nick Thoburn about politics and aesthetics of experimental publishing, drawing largely from his book Anti-Book: On the Art and… Read episode details








