minor compositions
@minorcompositions
Publisher of books and media drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life. minorcompositions.info
C. L. R. James, refusing the eternal meeting agenda since 1948. The task is not to perfect organization until it rules over collective life, but to develop the capacity for people to think, act and create together without being commanded.
New MC Podcast — S2E7: Enduring Otherwise Ferdiansyah Thajib joins us to discuss queer and trans Muslim worldmaking in Indonesia: affective ethnography, Sharia law, care, contradiction, trans-run hair salons and the everyday work of making life otherwise. Now streaming on all the usual platforms.
With the World Cup reaching its final stages, a timely return to Minor Compositions Podcast Ep. 16: Sports & the Avant-Garde. Przemysław Strożek joins us to discuss workers’ sport, the Workers’ Olympics, Spartakiads – and what happens when art, politics and the pitch collide.
Alan Moore on genre, but also maybe on anarchism more broadly: the interesting part begins when rules stop being sacred and start becoming material to work on, against, and through. “They’re there to be pulverized.”
"Poetry is a manufacture." – Vladimir Mayakovsky, How Are Verses Made (1926) A useful reminder that poems aren't simply found – they're made. Possibly with equal parts rhythm, revision, cigarettes, and unreasonable confidence.
Music: the dangerous stuff that makes even stern revolutionaries emotionally available. Lenin, allegedly overcome by beauty, nerves, and the politically destabilising desire to say “stupid nice things.” Also: cat praxis. #Lenin #Music #CatsOfTheRevolution
Now available for direct order from Minor Compositions: Publishing as Collective Infrastructure. What if a book wasn’t an endpoint, but an infrastructure? A collective experiment in feminist servers, open-source tools, and autonomous knowledge production. www.minorcompositions.info?p=1918
Tabling tomorrow at the Summer Fair at Café OTO, the best venue in the world. 11AM-6PM. Interesting publishers & labels, great food and music. 11AM-6PM. See you there. www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/cafe-...
Book Launch Abolishing Capitalist Totality Berlin – July 2nd @ 19:30 Laden 2 Berlin Brunnenstr. 65, Berlin, Germany
Prosfygika, a powerful example of an urban common. It must be supported. Silvia Federici, May 2026 www.minorcompositions.info?p=1910
NRU (Noise Research Union) workshop at Desire and Capital + Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis Summer school, + Abolishing Capitalist Totality book presentation June 25th 2026, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam @nieuweinstituut.nl
The World Cup lasts three times longer than statutory paternity leave in the UK. Socialist feminists have long argued that care work is work. Two weeks paternity leave shows how little that work is valued. Minor Compositions for @dadshiftuk.bsky.social #PaternityLeave #TheDadShift
Eric Hobsbawm on why the US has not won the #WorldCup (along other reasons) #MarxistSports
Book launch: Communist Ontologies Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) and the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (University of Brighton) marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/j... Friday, June 19th at 3pm UK time
In honor of England’s first game in the World Cup, here’s #Bauhaus playing football somewhere in Italy.
Blackness and the Sociality of Sports: A Conversation with Fred Moten csalateral.org/interviews/b... #FredMoten #sports #BlackLife
Excellent review of The Wages of Dreamwork by Silvia Federici in the Marx & Philosophy Review of Books marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2269... #Dreamwork #CulturalLabor
#SocialistSurrealism #OrangeAlternative #MajorWaldemarFydrych More on the Orange Alternative and Socialist Surrealism: minorcompositions.info/?p=624
Behold, for now we are a highly esteemed and respected institution! Restroom graffiti does not lie.
From Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination. Book available for ordering and/or free download here: www.minorcompositions.info?p=284
Essex Uni has our editor and 11 colleagues they are being made redundant despite years of internationally recognised research, innovative teaching, and public engagement. A public statement in support. Please read, sign, and share: sites.google.com/view/mmpubli...
Giovanni Marmont on Toby Miller’s Cultural Studies podcast discussing his book “A Studious Use: Designing from the Undercommons” www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Ben Morea lived art and politics as one – no compromise. Through Black Mask & UAWMF, he turned culture into confrontation. He didn’t just resist the system; he built beyond it. His legacy: refuse passivity. Close the gap. Keep building. Rest in power.
New episode of @acidhorizon.bsky.social well worth listening to. David Foster Wallace & Mark Fisher: Irony, Sincerity, and Late Capitalism
Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 6 The Institution Negated? Available now on all the usual podcast places and YouTube. #FrancoBasaglia #CERFI @punctumbooks.bsky.social
Sending out first orders using fancy pants new MC logo stamper doohickey. 17 years in maybe even acting a bit like an actual publisher? Nah…