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.
Current & Recent Study Sessions
Queer Punk Archives in Motion. Team Dresch, Queeruption and cultures of queer DIY. Archival exploration session and discussion at MayDay Rooms.
30 September 2026
Anarchist Media as Collective Infrastructure. Collective Discussion and Workshop at the London Anarchist Bookfair. 26 September 2026.
CERFI: Analysis Everywhere – London Book Release Events. 16–18 September 2026.
Reading Group: Workers Against Capital: Reading Mario Tronti Sixty Years On, February–December 2026.
Earlier Gatherings
Totality and Feminist Life: Reading Silvia Federici’s Writing on Lukács’ Aesthetics
Reading & Discussion Event Series January – April 2025
On Birds & Kitchen Tables: Conversations of/in the Undercommons, ongoing iterative event, May–July 2023.
Weapons of Mass Instruction. Art, the State Form, and the NSK State in Time, online seminar, May 1, 2023.
Emotions Go to Work Exhibition
19 January–24 March 2019
Firstsite, Colchester, UK
Stop the City… Revisited
Organized as part of The Substation’s “Discipline the City” series
23 August–23 November 2017
There is no authority but yourself… and there is no self
19 August 2017, 7PM – The Substation, Singapore
#WorldsUpsideDown
11 March–2 April 2017, Firstsite, Colchester
Gee Vaucher – Introspective Exhibition
12 November 2016–19 February 2017, Firstsite, Colchester
Art & Anarchism Event @ the 2016 London Anarchist Bookfair
Saturday 29 October 2016, 10AM–7PM
Adventures in Sound & Music Broadcast on the Music of John Gruntfest, Resonance FM, 7 April 2016.
Occupation Culture
Seminar and working session at May Day Rooms, 26 June 2015.
Fuel to Fight DS30
Test Dept film & book event, 13 June 2015.
Retrograde London 2014
An evening of discussion in the shadow of the NSK State, The Horse Hospital.
Class Wargames Book Launch, Collective Gaming, and Dance Party
London, 25 October 2014.
nanopolitics, exhaustion, biopolitics: an evening of bodies and books
London, 9 October 2013.
Mayday Screening The Condition of the Working Class @ Wivenhoe
1 May 2013.
The Politics of Workers’ Inquiry Conference
2–3 May 2013 @ University of Essex.
Lessons of 2011: Three Theses on Political Organization
Seminar with Rodrigo Nunes, 12 March 2012.
Models for a Peer-to-Peer Society
A seminar with Michel Bauwen, 12 December 2011.
Six Impossible Politics Before Breakfast: A Discussion on Art & Politics in an Age of Austerity
Discussion on art and politics based on The Users Guide to Demanding the Impossible, 6 July 2011.
New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Occupation
Release event and discussion of The Occupation Cookbook and New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Liberty, 30 May 2011, London.
Commodities & Markets Seminar
Seminar on commodification and violence, 4 May 2011 @ the University of Essex.
I’m so broke I can’t even pay attention: Rethinking Social Wealth In & Against Times of Austerity
Discussion on rethinking notions of social wealth and affect against conditions of austerity, 27 March 2011, 1PM @ The Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago.
San Precario Network Screening + Discussion
5 December 2010, 16 Beaver Street.
Metropolitan Strategies, Psychogeographic Investigations
A drifting seminar, Brighton, 26 October 2010.
Curating Resistance :: Aesthetics & Ethics in Social Movement
University of Essex, 25 October 2010.
Discipline & the Moving Image
An evening of film curated by Zoe Beloff, Birkbeck Cinema, 11 June 2010.
This is Forever: An Exploration of Contemporary Autonomist Politics
A joint event with Team Colors on the current state of autonomist politics, Portland, OR, 25 March 2010.
Autonomism, Class Composition, and Cultural Studies
A series of panels on cultural studies and autonomism planned as part of the Cultural Studies Association conference, Berkeley, 18–2- March 2010.
Provo, Autonomy, and Ludic Politics London
White chickens, white bicycles, and the ludic politics of Dutch anarchism, The Foundry, 10 December 2009.
The Atrocity Organization: JG Ballard & the Technologies of Psychopathology Management
Wandering through the imagination, darkly, The Foundry, London, 10 November 2009.
Imperceptible Strategies, Unidentified Autonomous Organizations
A drifting seminar, London, 23 October 2009.
Connective Mutations: Autonomy & Subjectivation in the Coming Century
Seminar with Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, 16 Beaver, New York, 3–6 September 2009.
Affective Politics & the Imagination of Everyday Resistance
Public seminar on affect theory organized by Stevphen Shukaitis & Jack Bratich at Bluestockings, 2009.
Strategies of Refusal: Explorations in Autonomist Marxism
Public seminar on autonomist theory organized by Stevphen Shukaitis & Jack Bratich at Bluestockings, 2005.