[Minorcompositions] Two Upcoming Online Events – Disrupting the Transition (20/7) & Counter-Accounting, Refusal, and the Future of the Strike (27/7)

Sun Jul 19 16:10:17 UTC 2026

*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>

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