[Minorcompositions] Disrupting the Transition / Fugitive Study, Autonomous Media / Next Tronti Reading Group Session

Fri Aug 14 19:01:29 UTC 2026

*Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 9 Disrupting the Transition 
<https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=2000>*

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 <https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/92167228774>

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
<https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1666>7 September @ 7PM, online 
<https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/9602092748>. Sections: The Labour 
Theory of Value as Watchword; The Class; The Strategy of Refusal, 223-262.

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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
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