[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 33 Dismantling the Master's Clock / Feral Class Event with Marc Garrett

[Minor Compositions]

*Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 33 Dismantling the Master's Clock 
<https://youtu.be/7yKCG8Ahx3E>*

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 33 Dismantling the Master's Clock

In this episode, we speak with Rasheedah Phillips about her 
groundbreaking book Dismantling the /Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and 
Time/. Drawing from Black Quantum Futurism, Phillips challenges 
dominant, Western notions of time – showing how they have been shaped by 
colonialism, capitalism, and racial oppression. Why does time seem to 
move only forward? Why are certain experiences –  like aging or birth – 
treated as irreversible, even though physics suggests otherwise? 
Phillips explores how Black and Afrodiasporic communities have imagined 
and practiced alternative conceptions of time, where past, present, and 
future are interwoven rather than linear.

*Bio:* Rasheedah Phillips is a queer housing advocate, lawyer, parent, 
and interdisciplinary artist working through a Black futurist lens. 
Phillips is the founder of the AfroFuturist Affair, founding member of 
the Metropolarity Queer Speculative Fiction Collective, and co-creator 
of the art duo Black Quantum Futurism. Phillips’ work has been featured 
in the New York Times, The Wire, New York Magazine, Boston Review, 
Hyperallergic, and e-flux. Ash Sharma is an independent researcher and 
writer, and editor of journal darkmatter journal 
(https://darkmatter-hub.pubpub.org)

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*Feral Class <https://www.facebook.com/events/1272333564234340>*
July 28th @ 7PM UK Time, online 
<https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/97232931747>

Feral Class

Event with Marc Garrett about his forthcoming book /Feral Class/

Untamed. Unheard. Unstoppable. Feral Class is Marc Garrett’s raw and 
resonant memoir of surviving – and creating – on the margins. This event 
delves into the lived realities of working-class artists, charting 
Garrett’s journey from the edges of cultural production to the heart of 
radical practice. Through vivid storytelling, biting critique, and 
moments of dark humour, Garrett reflects on what it means to grow up 
outside the safety nets of art institutions, forging a path through DIY 
networks, political resistance, and feral creativity.

What does it mean to live as part of the “feral class” – those who exist 
beyond the permission of gatekeepers, who make art not to be accepted 
but to disrupt? Join us for an exploration of class struggle, artistic 
survival, and the wild potential of lives lived in defiance of cultural 
elitism. This is not just a memoir – it’s a call to arms for those who 
create from below, with dirt under their nails and fire in their bellies.

*Bio:* Marc Garrett’s life and work embody the intersection of art, 
technology, and social change, shaped by his working-class upbringing 
and a commitment to challenging institutional hierarchies. Growing up in 
Southend-On-Sea, he explored creative expression through street art, 
pirate radio, and early online activism before co-founding Furtherfield 
in 1996 with Ruth Catlow, an artist-led community resisting the 
commercialisation of the art world. Despite personal challenges, 
including a cancer diagnosis in 2022, Garrett continues to focus on 
ideas and questions that acknowledge and engage working-class and 
feral-class contexts as a springboard for more extensive dialogues on 
creating conditions for social change across art, technology, and ecology.

Organized by Minor Compositions & COVER

This event will be edited into an episode of the Minor Compositions podcast.
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