[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 6 The Institution Negated?

[Minor Compositions]

*Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 6 The Institution Negated? 
<https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1903>
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In this episode we are joined by John Foot, Susana Caló, and Godofredo 
Enes Pereira for a wide-ranging conversation on the publication in 
English of The Negated Institution, and the radical milieus that shaped 
it, emerging from the turbulent political and intellectual landscape of 
the 1960s and 70s. The discussion traces the overlapping trajectories of 
Franco Basaglia’s movement in Italy – best known for its role in 
dismantling psychiatric hospitals – and the parallel work of CERFI 
(Centre d’Études, de Recherches et de Formation Institutionnelles) in 
France. Rather than treating these as isolated histories, the 
conversation explores their shared concerns: the critique of 
institutional power, the rethinking of subjectivity, and the attempt to 
invent new forms of collective life beyond the confines of medicalized 
and bureaucratic control. Across the episode, we discuss how these 
projects navigated the fraught terrain between theory and practice, 
politics and care, organization and spontaneity. What did it mean to 
“open” the institution, and what forms of resistance or capture did this 
entail? How did these movements intersect with broader currents of 1968 
and its aftermath? And what can their experiments teach us today, in a 
moment where questions of mental health, social reproduction, and 
institutional life have вновь become urgent?

The Negated Institution: 
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-negated-institution-report-from-a-psychiatric-hospital/

CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and 
Psychiatry: https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1661

Intro / outro music: Ornette Coleman – Forgotten Children, from The Love 
Revolution 1968 (recorded at Teatro Lirico, Milan on February 5, 1968)

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