[Minorcompositions] Abolishing Capitalist Totality: What Is to Be Done under Real Subsumption?

[Minor Compositions]

*Abolishing Capitalist Totality: What Is to Be Done under Real 
Subsumption? <https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1690>*
Edited by Anthony Iles & Mattin


/When capitalism feels inescapable, theory becomes a weapon to challenge 
fatalistic totalities. This book explores the limits of the colonization 
of everyday life by economic logic gone mad./

Wherever we are we find ourselves choking, trapped in a world built 
against us we feel we don’t belong to. A world that is going down the 
drain. Unable to stop this process as if history has surpassed us, we 
seem to have missed our opportunity to take hold of the future. We must 
ask ourselves: why are fatalistic and totalising narratives so prevalent 
in our times? What would it take to work against fear, to restore a 
sense of agency and critical comprehension over capitalism’s runaway 
processes? By tracing and uncovering the subterranean history of the 
Marxist concept of subsumption within the French ultraleft, Operaismo, 
the Frankfurt School and Mexican movements, as well as through heated 
debates within communist circles in the last decade, /Abolishing 
Capitalist Totality/ offers a profound and critical inquiry into what we 
understand by capitalist totality and its dominating powers. It 
addresses radical forms of antagonism: the self-abolition of the 
proletariat, of gender and race, and explores how these relate to other 
forms of abolition, thereby opening possibilities for new alliances and 
constellations.

As an integral aspect of interrogating and reorganising the form of the 
book, poets and artists have been invited to challenge what we perceive 
as the totality of this book by intervening into its conventions. Our 
hope is that readers will be able to grasp not only the concepts 
presented in the book but also its form, in a multifaceted and engaged 
manner. What has been perceived in recent years as an enclosed 
capitalist totality is, in fact, composed of concrete processes that we 
can act upon: /how we understand capitalism determines how we abolish 
capital./

Includes texts and interventions from Anthony Iles, Mattin, Andrés Saenz 
De Sicilia, Bolívar Echeverría, Négation, Federico Corriente, Roland 
Simon, Anne Boyer, Lisa Jeschke, Em Hedditch,
Loss Choi, Danny Hayward, 
Sean Bonney, Sacha Kahir, Théorie Communiste, Ray Brassier, Neil Gray, 
Rob Lucas, Nadia Bou Ali, Jessika Khazrik, Andrei Chitu, Marina 
Vishmidt, Dimitra Kotouza, and Endnotes.

*Bio:* Anthony Iles is a book editor and writer based in London. He
is a 
founding member of Full Unemployment Cinema and a Contributing Editor 
with /Mute/ since 2005. He
is the author, with Josephine Berry, of the 
book /No Room to Move: Art and the Regenerate City/ (2011), co-author, 
with Tom Roberts, of /All Knees and Elbows/ (2012).

Mattin is an artist, musician, and theorist working conceptually with 
noise and improvisation. Through his practice and pedagogy, he explores 
performative forms of estrangement as a way of engaging with structural 
alienation. He is the author of /Social Dissonance/ (2022) and, together 
with Anthony Iles, co-edited /Noise & Capitalism/ (2009). He runs the 
podcast Social Discipline with Miguel Prado, and both are members of 
Noise Research Union (NRU).

584 pages, 130 x 202mm, paperback, 13 illustrations
UK: £25 / US: $35
ISBN 978-1-57027-441-1

Release to the book trade 24 July 2026

-- 
Minor Compositions. Publishing the unruly, the radical, and the yet-co-come.
https://www.minorcompositions.info

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