Minor Compositions

08/10/2025

New massive collection of Ed Emery’s writings from the comrades at .press.
Letters To A Future Republic: Selected Writings of Ed Emery.
https://agitpress.net/books/p/future-republic

06/10/2025

RIP Gianfranco Sanguinetti
one of the last standing members of the Situationist International has left the building…

05/10/2025

David Graeber between anthropology and philosophy
International Conference & Gathering

Bologna, Reggio Emilia, Ravenna
6-7-8 October 2025
https://site.unibo.it/sivenatura/it/eventi/david-graeber-between-anthropology-and-philosophy

David Graeber was not only one of the most original anthropologists of his generation—described by Maurice Bloch as “the best anthropological theorist of his time”—but also one of the most influential thinkers of our era. His work, from Debt: The First 5000 Years to Bu****it Jobs, challenges us to rethink the moral, social, and economic foundations of modern life. As Thomas Piketty notes, Graeber’s writing compels us to reconsider how value, obligation, and freedom shape our world.

An upcoming conference will explore Graeber’s legacy across three key themes: theories of value and debt; philosophical anthropology and the epistemology of the human sciences; and political theory and democracy. Together, these threads reveal Graeber’s enduring contribution to reimagining how we live, work, and create together.

Link for remote access: 6b13bb9a-47ba-4cec-ba37-a3d9ab507d9c@e99647dc-1b08-454a-bf8c-699181b389ab" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6b13bb9a-47ba-4cec-ba37-a3d9ab507d9c@e99647dc-1b08-454a-bf8c-699181b389ab

04/10/2025

New Woodbine podcast on Autonomedia stuff, 40+ years of autonomist publishing, starting from a wager against death. It was a fun chat.

01/10/2025

Collective Infrastructures for Publishing
Saturday 4 October 2025, 12:30 to 18:00 BST
A hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project.
We will be discussing experimental tools, non-extractive practices, and shared infrastructures that resist corporate publishing models. Organised by Experimental Publishing Group & ServPub.
Register via this link - https://www.eventsforce.net/cip
Online & Borough Road Gallery, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA.

30/09/2025

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 39 From Disalienation to Collective Care. Institutional Psychotherapy as Resistance
https://youtu.be/amhMczYypDE

Discussion with Elena Vogman & Marlon Miguel discussing the work of François Tosquelles and Jean Oury

Born amidst the ruins of World War II and the shadow of fascist extermination policies, institutional psychotherapy emerged not just as a form of mental health care, but as a radical mode of resistance. At the Saint-Alban psychiatric hospital in occupied France, a new approach was forged, one that tore open the walls of confinement and reimagined the psychiatric institution as a space for collective transformation. Patients and caregivers, militants and medics worked together in horizontal structures, creating group therapies and cooperatives that refused both the authoritarianism of the clinic and the colonial logic embedded in psychiatric norms.

The recent volume Psychotherapy and Materialism brings this history into sharper view, offering the first English translations of two key texts by François Tosquelles and Jean Oury—figures at the core of this movement. A Catalan exile and anarcho-syndicalist, Tosquelles was instrumental in theorizing the treatment of the institution as inseparable from the treatment of psychic suffering. Oury, later founder of the La Borde clinic, extended this work through experimental practices that would resonate with – and influence – thinkers like Frantz Fanon, Félix Guattari, Fernand Deligny, and Anne Querrien.

Also available on all the usual podcast platforms.

30/09/2025

Marc Garrett will appear on Felixstowe Radio today between 4-6PM.
Tune in at https://felixstoweradio.org.uk or 107.5
He’ll be interviewed by Laura Unlocked about his new book Feral Class.

29/09/2025

Nice shot out from the comrades at AK Press… and the black and orange seems very fitted by for (almost) October.

Distro Highlight ✨
Toward a Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life by Brian Massumi and from

Fascism is not just a historical event – it is a recurring process, adapting and re-emerging in new forms. In Toward a Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life Brian Massumi offers a conceptual framework for understanding fascist tendencies as they unfold in contemporary politics. Moving beyond rigid definitions, this book provides a vocabulary of key concepts that trace how fascism operates, spreads, and takes root in the collective psyche. Drawing on process philosophy and political theory, Massumi challenges conventional understandings of power, personality, and collectivity, inviting readers to think critically about the conditions that enable authoritarianism’s resurgence.

Available now at AKPress.org!

28/09/2025

Now available for advance ordering and/or free download…

Unsettled
Erin Manning

Explores what it means to be claimed, not just by blood, but by history, land, and the fragile web of human connection.

To belong is never a simple matter. For Erin Manning, ancestry has always been more of an entanglement than a strict lineage: a collection of stories, fabulations, and echoes of the past. Unsettled is a deeply personal and philosophical exploration of ancestry, identity, and belonging, particularly within the context of Québec’s settler-colonial history and its complex relationship with Indigeneity.

Here Manning describes her relationship with a close friend, R., who has lived a life shaped by poverty, subsistence farming, and a profound connection with the land. When R.’s mother bequeaths him their family land, he is left to navigate the tensions of inheritance, loss, and belonging. In an attempt to connect to R.’s Indigenous background, Manning offers to trace his genealogy. Soon, questions of what it means to “bestow” Indigeneity from an ancestral perspective begin to loom. Manning explores and critiques the practice of usurping Indigeneity in Québec, where claims of Métis ancestry are often leveraged for social or political gain, ultimately reinforcing whiteness and colonial structures rather than dismantling them. Through the lens of personal relationships, historical analysis, and philosophical inquiry, Unsettled challenges conventional notions of ancestry, property, and identity, while advocating for relational belonging over bloodline essentialism.

PDF available freely online: https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1618

27/09/2025

Quacking détournement: when the sacred meets the absurd

25/09/2025

For Folk in NYC

Leopoldina Fortunati, The Arcana of Reproduction
A talk by Leopoldina Fortunati, with Arlen Austin and Andreas Petrossiants
October 2, 2025, 7pm
https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783274/leopoldina-fortunati-the-arcana-of-reproduction

Join us at e-flux on Thursday, October 2nd, at 7pm for a talk and conversation with Leopoldina Fortunati about her classic work, The Arcana of Reproduction. Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers, and Capital, released for the first time in an unabridged English translation by Verso Books. Fortunati is joined by Arlen Austin, media studies scholar and co-translator, who will discuss the work in the context of Fortunati's oeuvre and her recent analyses of digital labor. The conversation is moderated by Andreas Petrossiants, associate editor of e-flux Journal.

Emerging from the great social upheavals that contested the sexual and racial divisions of labor globally in the 1970s, Fortunati’s work is an essential contribution to today’s discussions of social reproduction and the history of Italian feminism. The Arcana unveils the hidden structures behind the reproduction of the labor force, exposing capitalism's reliance on unpaid, often invisible reproductive labor—primarily performed by women. Combining Marxist critical political economy with feminist theory, it demonstrates that care, domestic work, and sexual labor are central to capitalist production and are politically significant. It positions women as strategic actors in the composition of revolutionary class forces. Ultimately, it demands radical social change to value and liberate reproductive labor from capitalist exploitation. The Arcana provides some of the earliest theorizations of “immaterial,” “affective,” and “caring” labor, and of the role of technology in reproduction, articulated decades before their popular reception in English academic literature. The text remains prefigurative and essential in our era of digital labor.

A talk by Leopoldina Fortunati followed by a conversation with Arlen Austin, moderated by Andreas Petrossiants.

22/09/2025

As bookfairs go, this year's London Anarchist Bookfair definitely felt the most cinematic. Tabling literally felt like you were in a movie.