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href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=2004"><b>Minor
Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 10 Counter-Accounting,
Refusal, and the Future of the Strike</b></a><br>
Now available on all the usual podcast platforms.<br>
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In this episode we speak with Abe Walker and Callum Cant about how
workers produce knowledge of their own exploitation – and when
making that knowledge visible risks strengthening the systems of
management and control they oppose.<br>
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Beginning with Walker’s work on counter-accounting, the
conversation explores workers’ attempts to challenge official
narratives through alternative records, inquiries and measures.
While such practices can expose wage theft, impossible workloads
and managerial deception, they may also reproduce the assumptions
of productivity, efficiency and accountability embedded in
management’s own tools. This leads to a wider discussion of
workers’ inquiry, strategic opacity and the problem of becoming
legible to fellow workers without becoming more governable by
employers. The discussion then turns to quiet quitting, deception,
sabotage and other informal refusals that often emerge where
collective organization is weak. Against the tendency to dismiss
these as merely individual withdrawal, Walker and Cant consider
how hidden or dispersed acts of non-compliance might develop into
shared forms of struggle.<br>
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Drawing on Cant and Matthew Lee’s work on the 1926 General Strike,
the episode revisits the role of rank-and-file workers who
expanded the strike beyond the intentions of official leadership.
From small militant networks to mass pickets, workplace marches
and solidarity extending beyond particular trades, the strike
became a means of creating new collective subjects across
workplaces and communities. The conversation concludes by asking
what these histories offer workers confronting platform
capitalism, algorithmic management and increasingly authoritarian
workplaces today: how can workers use employers’ knowledge against
them, build power from seemingly minor forms of resistance, and
transform refusal into collective action?<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/zb2fx_v1">Abe Walker –
Holding labor to ac(count): quiet quitting and the limits of the
anti-work imaginary</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3483-the-future-in-our-past">Callum
Cant and Matthew Lee – The Future in our Past: The General
Strike, 1926/2026</a></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
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
<i> Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World</i>, and
Giovanni Marmont, author of <i>A Studious Use: Designing from the
Undercommons</i>. 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
href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1666">Ongoing Tronti
Reading Group<br>
</a>7 September @ 7PM, <a
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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