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Minor Compositions

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 Minor Compositions: Publishing the Unruly, the Radical, and the Yet-to-Come.
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

As well on this webstite, Minor Compositions can be listened to via all the usual podcast type places including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc...
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  • E43 - Communize the city

    E43 - Communize the city
    Dec 9 2025
    Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 43 Communize the city

    This episode begins with Kike España’ presenting his essay “Communize the City: Towards an Insurgent Vicinity,” a text that examines the contemporary urban condition through the lens of financial brutalism, before segueing into a discussion of themes from it. España argues that cities have become logistical infrastructures of extraction, where financialization, automation, and real-estate speculation converge to displace communities and dissolve social relations. Drawing on thinkers such as Mbembe, Lefebvre, Guattari, and Moten, the essay frames the city-form as a planetary apparatus of expulsion – one that transforms citizenship, civility, and urban renewal into mechanisms of enclosure, discipline, and dispossession. Against this backdrop, España calls for insurgent forms of inhabiting that arise from the ruins of financial brutalism: practices of neighborhood, subsistence, and insurgency that refuse recognition by the dominant order while cultivating new forms of common life. By foregrounding the “informality of the commune” and proposing strategies like neighborhood committees, blocks in struggle, and intercommunalism, the text insists on the possibility of communizing the city from within its fractures. The seminar invites participants to reflect on how these concepts might inform both critical theory and practical organizing in the face of today’s planetary urban crisis.

    Bio:     Kike España is an architect and urban researcher based in Málaga, Spain, with a PhD in urban theory from the University of Seville. He is actively involved in grassroots cultural-urban initiatives, including the social and cultural centre La Casa Invisible, the collective bookshop Suburbia, and the independent publishing house Subtextos. His work bridges academic inquiry and activist practice. He contributes to the Overtourist City research project at the School of Architecture, University of Málaga, and his writings explore themes of gentrification, commoning, and insurgent urbanism.
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    59 Min.
  • E42 - We Are Making a Podcast About Mark Fisher

    E42 - We Are Making a Podcast About Mark Fisher
    Nov 25 2025
    Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 42 We Are Making a Podcast About Mark Fisher

    In this episode, we speak with artists Sophie Mellor and Simon Poulter of Close and Remote about their sprawling, collaborative, and genre-bending project We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher. The conversation traces the origins of the film: how an initial spark in Fisher’s writing grew into a hybrid work that fuses documentary, performance, collective creativity, and hauntological fiction. We explore how Close and Remote approached the challenge of translating hauntology into visual and cinematic language: the textures of lost futures, the atmospheres of cultural stagnation, and the ghosts that structure the present. With over seventy contributors and much of the production unfolding openly on Instagram, the film became an experiment in distributed authorship and decapitalised making. Mellor and Poulter reflect on how this process worked in practice: the unexpected turns, the moments of productive chaos, and the ways the networked contributions reshaped the project’s trajectory. They consider, too, how Fisher himself might have responded to such a mode of production, and the tensions inherent in staging anti-capitalist creative work on corporate platforms.

    Screening dates and more information about We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher can be found at Close and Remote: https://www.closeandremote.net/portfolio/we-are-making-a-film-about-mark-fisher
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    56 Min.
  • E41 - Alifuru World: Stateless Histories, Decolonial Futures

    E41 - Alifuru World: Stateless Histories, Decolonial Futures
    Nov 11 2025
    Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 41 Alifuru World: Stateless Histories, Decolonial Futures

    Discussion with Ferdiansyah Thajib & Hypatia Vourloumis on the forthcoming book Anarchy in Alifuru: The History of Stateless Societies in the Maluku Islands by Bima Satria Putra

    Putra’s book traces the histories of the Alifuru peoples – those who refused incorporation into the state formations of Ternate, Tidore, colonial empires, and the modern Indonesian nation-state. Drawing from oral histories, early travel accounts, and anarchist anthropology, Anarchy in Alifuru reimagines Maluku not as a marginal zone of empire but as a living archive of statelessness: a site where alternatives to state power and hierarchical authority were practiced, defended, and continually reconfigured. This conversation will explore how these histories of Alifuru resistance resonate with contemporary struggles for autonomy, decolonization, and collective life. How might the legacies of refusal and federation in the archipelago inform critiques of extraction, assimilation, and the persistent violence of the nation-state? What possibilities emerge when we read these histories as resources for thinking – and living – politics otherwise? Together Thajib, and Vourloumis will consider how Anarchy in Alifuru unsettles dominant narratives of modernity and opens space for minor, insurgent forms of world-making.

    Bios: Ferdiansyah Thajib is a researcher and educator whose work focuses on queer politics, affect, and the intersections of memory, trauma, and collective healing in post-authoritarian Indonesia. Current he is a senior lecturer at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Since 2007 he has been a member of the KUNCI Study Forum & Collective in Yogyakarta, where he has been involved in developing practices of critical pedagogy, artistic research, and collaborative forms of knowledge production. His writing and projects explore how marginal communities craft modes of survival, endurance, and solidarity.

    Hypatia Vourloumis is a scholar of performance, poetics, and anticolonial thought with a focus on Indonesia. She holds a Ph.D. in performance studies from NYU and has published widely in journals such as Women & Performance, Theatre Journal, and Performance Research. She is co-author (with Sandra Ruiz) of Formless Formation (Minor Compositions, 2021) and The Alleys (NP, 2024). Her work often emerges through collaboration with theorists, artists, and activists, engaging questions of aesthetics, politics, and autonomous forms of collective life.

    Intro / Outro Music: Filastine & Nova - Nusa Fantasma
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    1 Std. und 12 Min.
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