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<p><b>Disrupting the Transition: Ecological Crisis, Radical
Abundance, and Collective Futures</b><br>
20/7 @ 7PM, UK Time, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/91061879374">Online</a> <br>
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<p>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.<br>
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Across much mainstream discussion, the climate transition is
presented as a choice between ecological necessity and social
prosperity. Yet as Nicholas Beuret argues in <i>Or Something
Worse</i>, 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, <i>Radical Abundance</i>, 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.<br>
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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?<br>
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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.<br>
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This online discussion is hosted by Minor Compositions and will be
edited for a future episode of the Minor Compositions podcast.<br>
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<b>Counter-Accounting, Refusal, and the Future of the Strike</b><br>
27/7 @ 7PM UK Time, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/98068308058">online</a><br>
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<p><i>How do workers make their struggles visible? And when does
visibility itself become a trap?</i><br>
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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.<br>
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These questions resonate strongly with the themes explored in
Callum Cant and Matthew Lee's new book <i>The Future in Our Past:
The General Strike, 1926/2026</i>. 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.<br>
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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?<br>
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The event is organized by Minor Compositions and will be recorded
and edited for a future episode of the Minor Compositions podcast.<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1045235426000110">Holding
labor to ac(count): quiet quitting and the limits of the
anti-work imaginary</a><br>
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