Minor Compositions

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 1 Episode 9 Compound Lyricism This episode intersperses a performance by experimental Indonesian doom folk metal band Senyawa (recorded in Folkestone in April 2022) with a discussion with their vocalist and lyricist Rully Shabara. The interview covers topics including his approach to writing lyrics, use of allegory and imagery, and how this has changed over Senyaw...

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 1 Episode 8: After the Internet For this episode we have a discussion with Tiziana Terranova about her recently released book After the Internet: Digital Networks between Capital and the Common . We cover a range of topics including the shift from the internet as open network to the rise of corporate platforms, the psychopathologies of digital culture, and capital...

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 1 Episode 7 Feminism, Punk and the Avant-Garde For this episode we have a discussion with Becky Binns about her recently released book Gee Vaucher: Beyond punk, feminism and the avant-garde . We cover a a range off topics including Gee’s work in relationship with punk and artistic countercultures, as well as the changing historiography of punk and feminism. Does a...

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 1 Episode 5 Squatting, Art, and Gentrification  For this episode we have a discussion with Clarrie Pope and Alan W Moore around squatting, art, and gentrification, as well as a range of related topics. The idea is to explore these topics, but coming from different angles, for instance how writing a graphic novel about squatting is different from a personal account...

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 1 Episode 4 The Weight of the Printed Word In this episode we have a conversation with Steve Wright, about his book The Weight of the Printed Word: Text, Context and Militancy in Operaismo . In it we discuss the role of print production and document work in the history of Italian operaismo and autonomist Marxism. What role did the production of various forms of pr...

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 1 Episode 3 Surrealism and the War on Work In this episode we have a conversation with Abigail Susik, about her book Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work . We cover a range of topics including the centrality of work refusal to the history of Surrealism, automatist practices and aesthetic sabotage, the class composition of labor that influenced the beginning of...

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 1 Episode 2 For this episode, as something of a preview to the upcoming publication of Paolo Sollier’s book Kicks, Spits, and Headers. The Autobiographical Reflections of an Accidental Footballer we have a conversation with Gabriel Kuhn about the relationship between radical politics and sports, particularly focusing on his book Soccer Vs. the State: Tackling Foot...

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 1 Episode 1: Communizing Publishing This first episode of the Minor Compositions podcast is a discussion with Nick Thoburn about experimental publishing and communizing media. Nick Thoburn is Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester. He writes about publishing, political theory, social movements, and architecture, and is author of "Anti-Book: On the Art...