[Minorcompositions] Fugitive Study, Autonomous Media

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Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 11 Fugitive Study, 
Autonomous Media <https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=2011>
Radical Practices of Study with Eli Meyerhoff and Giovanni Marmont

/What becomes possible when study is detached from education, 
accreditation and the demand for individual improvement? And what kinds 
of social relations emerge when study is approached not as preparation 
for a qualification or career, but as something worth doing in itself?
/
Here are are joined by Eli Meyerhoff, author of Beyond Education: 
Radical Studying for Another World, and Giovanni Marmont, author of A 
Studious Use: Designing from the Undercommons. Together they explore 
study as a collective and intrinsically motivated practice, distinct 
from the institutional forms that usually organise, measure and give 
credit for it. Meyerhoff discusses his concept of “modes of study” as a 
way of historicising education and making its dominant forms appear less 
inevitable. Drawing on experiences including the Experimental College of 
the Twin Cities and Abolitionist University Studies, the conversation 
considers what happens when grades, credits and other external rewards 
are removed, and when relationships among participants become central to 
sustaining study. Marmont develops this through his account of study as 
attentive engagement, collective tuning and shared indebtedness: less a 
matter of acquiring something for oneself than of becoming increasingly 
responsive to how our actions are entangled with those of others.

The discussion also considers the difficulties involved in creating 
alternatives. Projects outside universities can easily carry academic 
assumptions, hierarchies and habits with them, reproducing the very 
forms they hoped to escape. Free universities, para-academic publishing 
and other autonomous initiatives therefore raise questions not only 
about where study happens, but about the social forms through which it 
is organised. From there, the conversation turns toward media and 
publishing. Rather than beginning with a predetermined output – a book, 
podcast or journal – the participants ask what forms of media might grow 
from the kinds of relationships and practices of study being created. 
Publications can become points of entry into further encounters rather 
than finished products: occasions for extending conversations, making 
connections and sustaining collective inquiry.

The episode also introduces Minor Compositions’ emerging formulation 
Fugitive Study, Autonomous Media: an attempt to think of publishing less 
as the production of content than as the creation of spaces, 
relationships and infrastructures through which study can continue to 
happen.

*FORTHCOMING STUDY SESSIONS*

*Abolishing Capitalist Totality*
Mattin and Anthony Iles in conversation with Dimitra Kotouza and Ray 
Brassier
September 15th @ 7PM UK Time, online 
<https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/91834950700>
*
CERFI: Analysis Everywhere, with Susana Caló, Godofredo Enes Pereira and 
guests 
<https://www.freud.org.uk/event/in-house-cerfi-analysis-everywhere-with-susana-calo-and-godofredo-enes-pereira/>*
An evening symposium to celebrate the publication of /CERFI: Analysis 
Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry 
<https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1661>/
16 September, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm @ the Freud Museum, London, and online

*Fanon & Democracy*
Mark Purcell in conversation with Mrinalini Greedharry
September 21st @ 7PM UK, online 
<https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/99544328812>

*Exploding Cinema*
Duncan Reekie in conversation
September 28th @ 7PM UK Time, online 
<https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/99104325102>

*Fables of Re-Enchantment*
Stefania Consigliere in conversation
October 12th @ 7PM UK Time, online 
<https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/98853029824>

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https://www.minorcompositions.info

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