Minor Compositions

Mar 26 2025 25 ep. 67 mins 3
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Minor Compositions is a research theorizing publishing project that is located, at the moment, within the London metropolitan basin of collective intelligence. Its main aim is to bring together, develop, and mutate forms of autonomist thought and practice, avant-garde aesthetics, and an everyday approach to politics.

More information: https://www.minorcompositions.info

The Minor Compositions podcast is produced in collaboration with Firefly Frequencies:
https://fireflyfrequencies.org

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E26 - We Don’t Need More Heroes with Scorpio

Mar 26 2025 67 mins  
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 26: We Don’t Need More Heroes with ScorpioFor this episode we talk with Brixton-based textile artist Scorpio about his life and work. Last summer a quest to learn more about the 1990s militant queer art collective Homocult led us to visiting “Iconic Queer,” an exhibition of Scorpio’s work at the Lambeth Archives. Moved by the power of the

E25 - Shaping for Mediocrity

Mar 17 2025 89 mins  
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 25 Shaping for Mediocrity For this episode, in light of the current sector wide university crisis in the UK, we present the recording of a seminar with Ronald Hartz, David Harvie, and Simon Lilley about their book Shaping for Mediocrity. In 2021, as part of a programme called Shaping for Excellence, bosses at the University of Leicester made redun

E24 - Jobs, Jive, & Joy with Bernard Marszalek & Peter Bloom

Mar 10 2025 76 mins  
For this episode we have a conversation with Bernard Marszalek and Peter Bloom about Bernard’s new book Jobs, Jive, & Joy: An Argument for the Utopian Spirit. In it we cover a wide range of topics including tech bros, the place of Bernard’s mum in labor history, and the ongoing quest to have our lives be filled with radical hedonism, collective joy, and non-alienated time.

E23 - No Authority No Self, or, Penny Rimbaud at the Substation

Feb 20 2025 41 mins  
As part of previewing and preparing for a larger project with Penny Rimbaud, this episode revisits a conversation with Penny from 2017. This was part of the “Stop the City… Revisited” installation which was part of “Discipline the City” exhibition and event series at the Substation in Singapore. It’s an interesting, if somewhat strange conversation, where Pen, as is his

E22 - Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital with Pil & Galia Kollectiv

Jan 20 2025 74 mins  
E22 - Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital with Pil & Galia Kollectiv In this episode we chat with Pil and Galia Kollectiv to explore their new book, Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital. Stevphen was originally to take part in the book release event last autumn in London but was unable. So instead we’ve turned that missed event into an excuse for

E21 - Feminist Antifascism v Contemporary Microfascism

Dec 23 2024 62 mins  
E21 - 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 on Bratich’s On Microfascism: Gender, Death, and War and Majewska’s Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common, the discussio

E20 - The Arts of Logistics with Michael Shane Boyle & Elaine W Ho

Dec 01 2024 60 mins  
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 20 The Arts of Logistics with Michael Shane Boyle & Elaine W Ho 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 joined by Elaine Ho, who artistic practice explores similar areas to those explored in Shane’s work. Thr

E19 - Emergent Assemblages of Relationist Football with Jamie Hamilton

Oct 04 2024 68 mins  
Episode 19 Emergent Assemblages of Relationist Football with Jamie Hamilton 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 of relationism in football, which is an approach that emphasizes emergent patterns of play discovered by the players themselves rather than fitting

E18 - Anxiety as Vibration with Ana Minozzo

Sep 26 2024 71 mins  
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 18 Anxiety as Vibration with Ana Minozzo 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 simply as a problem to be solved, but also as a potential site of rupture and transformation? And what tools might we find in a rethought version

E17 - Militant Aesthetics with Martin Lang

Jul 18 2024 83 mins  
Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 17 Militant Aesthetics with Martin Lang 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 activism changing in the current political and media climate? What tensions exist within these forms of political engagement and how can they be