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Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 11 Fugitive Study,
Autonomous Media</a><br>
Radical Practices of Study with Eli Meyerhoff and Giovanni Marmont<br>
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<p><i>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?<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.</p>
<p><b>FORTHCOMING STUDY SESSIONS</b><br>
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<b>Abolishing Capitalist Totality</b><br>
Mattin and Anthony Iles in conversation with Dimitra Kotouza and
Ray Brassier<br>
September 15th @ 7PM UK Time, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/91834950700">online</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.freud.org.uk/event/in-house-cerfi-analysis-everywhere-with-susana-calo-and-godofredo-enes-pereira/"><br>
CERFI: Analysis Everywhere, with Susana Caló, Godofredo Enes
Pereira and guests</a></b><br>
An evening symposium to celebrate the publication of <i><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1661">CERFI:
Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and
Psychiatry</a></i><br>
16 September, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm @ the Freud Museum, London, and
online<br>
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<b>Fanon & Democracy</b><br>
Mark Purcell in conversation with Mrinalini Greedharry<br>
September 21st @ 7PM UK, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/99544328812">online</a><br>
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<b>Exploding Cinema</b><br>
Duncan Reekie in conversation<br>
September 28th @ 7PM UK Time, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/99104325102">online</a><br>
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<b>Fables of Re-Enchantment</b><br>
Stefania Consigliere in conversation<br>
October 12th @ 7PM UK Time, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/98853029824">online</a><br>
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