[Minorcompositions] Formless Formation: Vignettes for the End of this World

[Minor Compositions]

Now available for direct ordering and/or free download…

Formless Formation: Vignettes for the End of this World
Sandra Ruiz & Hypatia Vourloumis

Formless Formation is an experimental project conceived and co-authored 
by two performance theorists working in critical aesthetics and 
political thought. The book is an insurgent revolt, walking side by side 
with plural and planetary anticolonial forces organizing against debt, 
expropriative extractive capital, environmental catastrophe, and the 
militarized policing of people and borders. It is in direct conversation 
with all Indigenous, Black, Brown, ecological, feminist, queer, 
diasporic movements and struggles countering capitalist predatory 
formations across time and space. Through shared resonances across 
differing aesthetic-life-worlds and solidarities that bypass the 
nation-state, Ruiz and Vourloumis bring to the forefront performative 
and aesthetic practices and methods that address current and future 
social organizing.

“For artists, theorists, revolutionaries, activists and weirdos who are 
already performing aesthetic-life-worlds and reaching for the beyond in 
the here and now, Formless Formation is a must read! Ruiz and Vourloumis 
witness, celebrate, and conjoin without taking and without force. This 
double negation as skillful artistry extends greater dreaming space to 
all of us who are already so over it and also in the known unknown by 
way of radical praxis. This prescient co-authorship with its expansive 
archive and out of this world word couplings, associations, and 
relations will make you question the revolutionary potential of anything 
attributed to a single name. Following their sound, there is a 
trustworthy “we” at work and play that moves us to a more radical 
radicality. This is a capacious analysis beyond interdisciplinarity. It 
is how we fly, zoom, read, and dance to believe in belief yet again, 
which makes the inventive and experimental, a collective ours.” – Ruth 
Nicole Brown

“Formless Formation manages to be many things at once: theory, 
manifesto, astute analysis, and sharp critique. Working from a sprawling 
archive of sources across disciplines, Ruiz and Vourloumis mobilize a 
potent set of keywords in order to pinpoint and pry loose new modes of 
aesthetic and political engagement. As current as your twitter feed and 
as musical as your life, this exhilarating text traces how pivotal queer 
and BIPOC artists and activists sonify resistance, how resonant forms 
emerge from and within the noise, and how contemporary performance 
catalyzes other worlds.” – Vijay Iyer

Bio: Sandra Ruiz is the author of Ricanness: Enduring Time in 
Anticolonial Performance (NYU Press, 2019). Hypatia Vourloumis is the 
author of the forthcoming Paralinguistic Insurgencies: Indonesian Noise. 
They are alumni of the performance studies department at NYU, where they 
met as students.

Release to the book trade May 2021

PDF available freely online: https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1026

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Minor Compositions is a series of interventions
& provocations drawing from autonomous politics,
avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.

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