Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 15 Fables of Re-Enchantment Now available at all the usual podcast places

At Historical Materialism London: Sat 7 Nov, 11:30 – Pessimism Sun 8 Nov, 11:30 – A New Revolutionary Imagination Two connected roundtables moving from Benjamin’s organize pessimism to questions of art, revolution and the impossible escape. @histmat

Poh Soo Kai’s socialism was not an abstract doctrine added onto anti-colonialism. It followed from it. Political independence raises another question: what kind of social and economic order replaces colonial rule? Freedom from empire also means asking what freedom is for.

Beyond Access: Publishing as Infrastructural Experimentation nihilistoptimism.blogspot.co…

What if publishing were less about producing books and more about building infrastructures for collective study and new publics? October 21st | Public Knowledge besidesthescreen.com/publick…

New on the MC Podcast: Exploding Cinema. Duncan Reekie on 30+ years of open-access underground film culture: no programmers, no gatekeepers, no career ladder – just people making spaces to show films together. Autonomous media as a way of organising culture otherwise.

Not every politics announces itself loudly. Sometimes resistance begins in refuge, mutual aid, difficult terrain and the stubborn refusal to be fully absorbed. As Grubačić & O’Hearn suggest: the edges are not outside struggle. They are often where its conditions are made.

Now in Indonesian: “Suku-Suku Api dan Kehidupan Tanpa Negara” – Bima Satria Putra in conversation with David Wengrow on stateless societies, decolonial anarchism, political experimentation & histories written beyond the state. dudukduduk.substack.com/p/su…

New from Rab-Rab Press: ULTRA-RED: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry, Vol. 2 — Learning Circles for Palestine. Listening as militant inquiry, political education & collective organisation. “No movement without listening!” rabrab.net/titles/urvol2

New essay in Parapraxis takes CERFI: Analysis Everywhere into questions of revolutionary subjectivity, group formation and the “communization of fantasy.” Very glad to see the book becoming material for further study, argument and invention. parapraxismagazine.com/artic…

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 13 Fanon & Democracy Available now on all the usual podcast platforms & YouTube

Some read Marx with devotion. Others with contempt. Lyotard proposes a third approach: stroke the beard and see what desires emerge. The beard is not a theoretical barrier. It is a complex libidinal volume. Historical materialism has entered its conditioner era.

Tomorrow! Minor Compositions at the London Anarchist Bookfair. Find us on Floor 4 at Rich Mix, 10am–6pm, with books for collective study, radical aesthetics & autonomous politics. Come browse, say hello & get into an argument about books. anarchistbookfair.london/

It's here! Silvia Federici's The Development of Lukács’ Realism is now available for direct order. Written in 1980, never before published. A remarkable early work on Marxism, realism & aesthetics. Shipping now. Trade release April 2027. minorcompositions.info/the-d…

Happy 93rd birthday to Alberto Asor Rosa. A key figure in early operaismo, from Classe Operaia to Contropiano. Silvia Federici engaged his work in her early research on Lukács. An intellectual history worth keeping in circulation. Photo: Danilo De Marco

Queer Punk Archives in Motion! Wed 30 Sept, 3–6pm at @maydayrooms – explore the Queeruption archive, zines & queer DIY histories with us ahead of Team Dresch's London show. Come for the archive, bring your memories. Register: events.maydayrooms.org/e/106…

Our books are going to Skopje without us! Minor Compositions won't be at the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair in person, but some of our titles will be there. 24–27 September. Four days of books, discussions and collective encounters. bab2026.espivblogs.net/