From minorcompositions at gmail.com Fri Aug 14 19:01:29 2026 From: minorcompositions at gmail.com (Minor Compositions / Autonomedia) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:01:29 +0100 Subject: [Minorcompositions] Disrupting the Transition / Fugitive Study, Autonomous Media / Next Tronti Reading Group Session Message-ID: <389537cd-a7f0-4b3e-b7fb-03df7678bddf@gmail.com> *Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 9 Disrupting the Transition * In this episode, we speak with Nicholas Beuret and Keir Milburn about ecological transition as a terrain of class struggle ? not simply a technical shift in energy systems, but a contested reorganisation of investment, work, infrastructure and everyday life. They examine how the existing green transition uses ecological crisis to stimulate investment and renew capitalist growth while imposing job losses, higher costs and deteriorating services on ordinary people. From Port Talbot to local conflicts over net zero spending, broken promises have produced a sense of betrayal that the right increasingly exploits, while centrist governments retreat from climate commitments without offering workers a meaningful alternative. Against this politics of managed decline, the conversation develops the idea of radical abundance: less wasteful and extractive production, but more housing, energy, healthcare, free time and democratic control over collective life. Drawing on the Lucas Plan, pharmaceutical commons, workers? cooperatives, public-common partnerships and community energy, Beuret and Milburn explore how disruption might be combined with the construction of durable alternatives. The question is not only how to resist the transition imposed from above, but how to build the institutions, infrastructures and collective power needed to shape another one. Next event *August 31st ? Fugitive Study, Autonomous Media ? Radical Practices of Study with Eli Meyerhoff and Giovanni Marmont* Monday 31 August 2026, 7:00 pm UK time: Online discussion hosted by Minor Compositions What becomes possible when study is separated from the institutions, qualifications and individualised forms of achievement that usually claim to organise it? How might study instead become a fugitive practice: a way of gathering, experimenting and making worlds together within, against and beyond the university? This online conversation brings together Eli Meyerhoff, author of Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World, and Giovanni Marmont, author of A Studious Use: Designing from the Undercommons. Meyerhoff?s work approaches education as a historically specific mode of organising knowledge, development and value, opening towards abolitionist perspectives on the university and alternative modes of study. Marmont explores study and use as practices that unsettle possessive individualism, beginning instead from our shared indebtedness, entanglement and capacity to produce experimental forms of sociality. Together, they will discuss the radical practices of study emerging from their work: study as collective experimentation, political struggle, unlearning and world-making. The conversation will also ask what kinds of spaces, relationships and media can sustain such practices when universities are increasingly organised around extraction, measurement and managed crisis. The event marks the launch of a new Minor Compositions formulation: Fugitive Study, Autonomous Media. It names publishing not simply as the production of books, but as part of a broader infrastructure through which ideas can circulate, encounters can be organised and collective practices of study can take form. The discussion will be recorded and subsequently released as a Minor Compositions podcast. Next Session in the Ongoing Tronti Reading Group 7 September @ 7PM, online . Sections: The Labour Theory of Value as Watchword; The Class; The Strategy of Refusal, 223-262. -- Minor Compositions. Publishing the unruly, the radical, and the yet-co-come. https://www.minorcompositions.info Linktree of all our stuff:https://linktr.ee/minorcompositions -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Thumbnail1-low.png Type: image/png Size: 102286 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Tronti.webp Type: image/webp Size: 66226 bytes Desc: not available URL: