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href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=2000">Minor
Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 9 Disrupting the
Transition</a></b><br>
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In this episode, we speak with Nicholas Beuret and Keir Milburn
about ecological transition as a terrain of class struggle – not
simply a technical shift in energy systems, but a contested
reorganisation of investment, work, infrastructure and everyday
life. They examine how the existing green transition uses
ecological crisis to stimulate investment and renew capitalist
growth while imposing job losses, higher costs and deteriorating
services on ordinary people. From Port Talbot to local conflicts
over net zero spending, broken promises have produced a sense of
betrayal that the right increasingly exploits, while centrist
governments retreat from climate commitments without offering
workers a meaningful alternative. Against this politics of managed
decline, the conversation develops the idea of radical abundance:
less wasteful and extractive production, but more housing, energy,
healthcare, free time and democratic control over collective life.
Drawing on the Lucas Plan, pharmaceutical commons, workers’
cooperatives, public-common partnerships and community energy,
Beuret and Milburn explore how disruption might be combined with
the construction of durable alternatives. The question is not only
how to resist the transition imposed from above, but how to build
the institutions, infrastructures and collective power needed to
shape another one.</p>
<p>Next event<br>
<b>August 31st – Fugitive Study, Autonomous Media – Radical
Practices of Study with Eli Meyerhoff and Giovanni Marmont</b><br>
Monday 31 August 2026, 7:00 pm UK time: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/92167228774">Online
discussion hosted by Minor Compositions</a><br>
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What becomes possible when study is separated from the
institutions, qualifications and individualised forms of
achievement that usually claim to organise it? How might study
instead become a fugitive practice: a way of gathering,
experimenting and making worlds together within, against and
beyond the university?<br>
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This online conversation brings together Eli Meyerhoff, author of
Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World, and Giovanni
Marmont, author of A Studious Use: Designing from the
Undercommons. Meyerhoff’s work approaches education as a
historically specific mode of organising knowledge, development
and value, opening towards abolitionist perspectives on the
university and alternative modes of study. Marmont explores study
and use as practices that unsettle possessive individualism,
beginning instead from our shared indebtedness, entanglement and
capacity to produce experimental forms of sociality.<br>
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Together, they will discuss the radical practices of study
emerging from their work: study as collective experimentation,
political struggle, unlearning and world-making. The conversation
will also ask what kinds of spaces, relationships and media can
sustain such practices when universities are increasingly
organised around extraction, measurement and managed crisis.<br>
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The event marks the launch of a new Minor Compositions
formulation: Fugitive Study, Autonomous Media. It names publishing
not simply as the production of books, but as part of a broader
infrastructure through which ideas can circulate, encounters can
be organised and collective practices of study can take form. The
discussion will be recorded and subsequently released as a Minor
Compositions podcast.</p>
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<p>Next Session in the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1666">Ongoing Tronti
Reading Group<br>
</a>7 September @ 7PM, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/9602092748">online</a>.
Sections: The Labour Theory of Value as Watchword; The Class; The
Strategy of Refusal, 223-262.<br>
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