From minorcompositions at gmail.com  Tue Jul 14 17:05:01 2026
From: minorcompositions at gmail.com (Minor Compositions)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:05:01 +0100
Subject: [Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 7
 Enduring Otherwise
Message-ID: <32e5448a-460a-44be-a265-0aa76922340e@gmail.com>

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 7 Enduring Otherwise 
<https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1927>
/Now available on all the usual podcast platforms./


In this episode, we talk with Ferdiansyah Thajib about his book 
/Enduring Otherwise: Muslim Queer and Trans Worldmaking in Indonesia 
<https://nyupress.org/9781479839339/enduring-otherwise/>/. Drawing on 
ethnographic research in Aceh, Yogyakarta and Jakarta, Ferdi explores 
how queer and trans Muslims build meaningful lives within social, 
religious and political conditions that often refuse them recognition. 
The conversation moves through Indonesia?s shifting legal landscape, 
conservative religious politics, Sharia law in Aceh and the everyday 
spaces where other forms of life become possible ? from trans-run hair 
salons to more inclusive Islamic communities.

Ferdi also discusses his approach to affective ethnography, the 
influence of his own experience as a gay Muslim and the importance of 
care, emotional labour and mutual support within activist communities. 
Rather than reducing queer and trans life to either victimhood or heroic 
resistance, Enduring Otherwise asks how people live with contradiction, 
sustain relationships and make worlds otherwise.

*Bio:* Ferdiansyah Thajib is a researcher and educator whose work 
focuses on queer politics, affect, and the intersections of memory, 
trauma, and collective healing in post-authoritarian Indonesia. Current 
he is a senior lecturer at FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany. Since 2007 he 
has been a member of the KUNCI Study Forum & Collective in Yogyakarta, 
where he has been involved in developing practices of critical pedagogy, 
artistic research, and collaborative forms of knowledge production. His 
writing and projects explore how marginal communities craft modes of 
survival, endurance, and solidarity.

-- 
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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From minorcompositions at gmail.com  Sat Jul 18 09:38:36 2026
From: minorcompositions at gmail.com (Minor Compositions / Autonomedia)
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:38:36 +0100
Subject: [Minorcompositions] Publishing as Collective Infrastructure
Message-ID: <89974e0d-1a63-4476-9ef4-5a2925e0849d@gmail.com>

Now available for ordering and/or free download?

*Publishing as Collective Infrastructure 
<https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1918>*

/What if a book wasn?t an endpoint but an infrastructure?/

//

/Publishing as Collective Infrastructure/ challenges the idea of the 
book as a fixed object and reimagines publishing as a collective, 
political, and infrastructural practice. Emerging from the ServPub 
project, this book brings together artists, academics, technologists, 
feminist server collectives, and experimental publishers to expose how 
contemporary publishing is shaped by extractive platforms, proprietary 
software, unpaid labour, and opaque infrastructures. Against this 
backdrop, the authors develop and document alternative models grounded 
in free and open-source tools, collective authorship, feminist care 
practices, and self-hosted, small-scale infrastructures.

Blending theory, documentation, and reflection, the book explores 
publishing as a full-stack practice:? spanning writing, design, 
software, servers, logistics, and governance. It addresses topics 
including ambulant servers, wiki-to-print workflows, versioning and 
forking books, radical referencing, and autonomous publishing, while 
situating these practices within broader debates on infrastructure, open 
access, and knowledge politics. Rather than offering a blueprint, 
/Publishing as Collective Infrastructure/ functions as a living 
experiment and pedagogical resource. It invites readers to think with ? 
and work through ? the infrastructures that make publishing possible, 
and to imagine how knowledge might be produced and shared otherwise.


*Bio:* /Publishing as Collective Infrastructure/ does not have a single, 
unified author. Instead, it is a polyphonic work shaped by the shared 
labor, ideas, and practices of multiple collectives and projects working 
across experimental publishing, feminist infrastructure, open-source 
design, and autonomous knowledge production. The book emerges from 
collaborations involving In-grid, Minor Compositions, noNames, Shape, 
and Systerserver, with contributions from Constant, Creative Crowds, 
Hackers & Designers, OBF Experimental Publishing Group, TITiPI, & Varia. 
Together, these groups contribute situated perspectives, technical 
practices, and collective forms of authorship that reflect the book?s 
commitment to publishing as a social, infrastructural, and political 
process.

PDF available freely online. Available direct from Minor Compositions site.
Release to book trade 15 January 2027

-- 
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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From minorcompositions at gmail.com  Sun Jul 19 16:10:17 2026
From: minorcompositions at gmail.com (Minor Compositions / Autonomedia)
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:10:17 +0100
Subject: [Minorcompositions] =?utf-8?q?Two_Upcoming_Online_Events_?=
 =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=93_Disrupting_the_Transition_=2820/7=29_=26_Counter-Acco?=
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Message-ID: <47d68b51-995d-4d07-9d1a-6104f5a526e7@gmail.com>

*Disrupting the Transition: Ecological Crisis, Radical Abundance, and 
Collective Futures*
20/7 @ 7PM, UK Time, Online 
<https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/91061879374>

Join Nicholas Beuret and Keir Milburn for a conversation exploring how 
we might confront ecological crisis without accepting austerity, 
sacrifice, and declining living standards as its inevitable cost.

Across much mainstream discussion, the climate transition is presented 
as a choice between ecological necessity and social prosperity. Yet as 
Nicholas Beuret argues in /Or Something Worse/, the transition to a 
low-carbon economy is increasingly becoming a new terrain of class 
conflict, where the costs are imposed on ordinary people while the 
benefits are captured by governments, corporations, and investors. At 
the same time, /Radical Abundance/, co-authored by Keir Milburn, 
challenges the idea that ecological limits require scarcity and 
deprivation. Instead, it argues for a world with less of what we do not 
need and more of what truly sustains collective flourishing.

Bringing these perspectives together, this discussion asks what kinds of 
social struggles, forms of organization, and political imagination are 
needed to move beyond green capitalism. How can ecological transition 
become a project of expanding access to housing, energy, care, mobility, 
education, and the means of collective life, rather than managing 
scarcity? What would it mean to replace the "bullshit abundance" of 
endless commodities with a radical abundance of what actually matters?

Drawing on examples of resistance, community organizing, democratic 
planning, and collective self-provisioning, Beuret and Milburn will 
explore how ecological politics can become a project not of tightening 
belts but of reclaiming and reorganizing the wealth we already 
collectively produce.

This online discussion is hosted by Minor Compositions and will be 
edited for a future episode of the Minor Compositions podcast.


*Counter-Accounting, Refusal, and the Future of the Strike*
27/7 @ 7PM UK Time, online <https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/98068308058>

/How do workers make their struggles visible? And when does visibility 
itself become a trap?/

This online discussion brings together Abe Walker and Callum Cant to 
explore the relationship between counter-accounting, refusal, collective 
organization, and contemporary forms of labor resistance. The 
conversation will begin from Walker's recent work on the limits of 
counter-accounting and its recurring vulnerability to recuperation. 
Through a historical examination of anti-work struggles, Walker asks 
whether efforts to challenge dominant institutions through alternative 
forms of accounting and measurement inevitably remain tied to the very 
systems they seek to overcome.

These questions resonate strongly with the themes explored in Callum 
Cant and Matthew Lee's new book /The Future in Our Past: The General 
Strike, 1926/2026/. Revisiting the 1926 General Strike on its centenary, 
the book examines how workers built forms of solidarity, organization, 
and collective power capable of disrupting the normal functioning of 
society, while reflecting on what those experiences might offer labor 
movements today.

Together, Walker and Cant will discuss what contemporary struggles can 
learn from earlier traditions of anti-work politics and collective 
action. What kinds of tactics are available to workers under 
contemporary conditions of platform capitalism, algorithmic management, 
and fragmented workplaces? Can practices of counter-accounting help 
build collective power, or do they risk reinforcing existing regimes of 
visibility and control? What might a politics of refusal look like 
today? And what lessons does the history of the General Strike offer for 
imagining forms of resistance capable of moving beyond individual 
withdrawal toward collective transformation?

The event is organized by Minor Compositions and will be recorded and 
edited for a future episode of the Minor Compositions podcast.

Holding labor to ac(count): quiet quitting and the limits of the 
anti-work imaginary 
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1045235426000110>

-- 
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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From minorcompositions at gmail.com  Mon Jul 27 20:41:44 2026
From: minorcompositions at gmail.com (Minor Compositions / Autonomedia)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:41:44 +0100
Subject: [Minorcompositions] =?utf-8?q?Minor_Compositions_Podcast_Season_?=
 =?utf-8?q?2_Episode_8_What=E2=80=99s_the_Use=3F_Entanglement=2C_Indebtedn?=
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Message-ID: <d0cde500-d619-4882-9723-238e47161760@gmail.com>

*Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 8 What?s the Use? 
Entanglement, Indebtedness, and Minor Socialities
*Now available on all the usual podcast platforms.

In this episode, we speak with Erin Manning and Giovanni Marmont for a 
conversation about how use might be detached from productivity, mastery, 
and measurable achievement. Moving between studious use, the pragmatics 
of the useless, colonial property, football, maple syrup, improvised 
infrastructures, and the struggle to reclaim time, they explore forms of 
collective life grounded in entanglement rather than individualism. What 
becomes possible when study is no longer treated as self-investment, 
land is not reduced to property, and practices are allowed to remain 
partial, experimental, and unresolved?

More on the books discussed in this episode
/A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons 
<https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1647>/
/Out of the Clear/ <https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1165>

Intro / outro music ? The Ex ? (Sucked Out Chucked Out) 2 from ?Dignity 
of Labour?

-- 
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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