minor compositions
Minor Compositions is a research – theorizing – publishing project that is located, at the moment, within the London metropolitan basin of collective intelligence. Its main aim is to bring together, develop, and mutate forms of autonomist thought and practice, avant-garde aesthetics, and an everyday approach to politics. To take up a useful distinction made by Alan Toner, this is to see not from a position of ‘producer consciousness’ (“we’re a publisher, we make books”) but rather from a position of protagonist consciousness (“we make books because it is part of participating in social movement and struggle”).
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Minor Compositions is both a part of Autonomedia and a becoming-other compositional mixture of Autonomedia that is not totally of it, that is the other to the self that is Autonomedia.
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It’s the same question posed by those who have ‘gone to croatan,’ by escaped slaves and maroon communities, or the forms of linguistic evasion practiced by gypsies, criminals, and other marginalized or oppressed communities develop. Another aspect of the project is to connect how these things are theorized in philosophy and social theory with the radical histories and practices that express similar positions, although often without using the same language.
some of authors listed: Anarchivism.. Antonio Negri..David Graeber..Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi..Fred Moten..Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination..Michael Hardt..Stefano Harney..Undercommons
anarch\ism.. antonio negri..david graeber..fred moten..lab of insurrectionary imagination..michael hardt..stefano harney..undercommons
from the undercommons page [http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=516#more-516]
Working from and within the social poesis of life in the undercommons Moten and Harney develop and expand an array of concepts: study, debt, surround, planning, and the shipped. On the fugitive path of an historical and global blackness, the essays in this volume unsettle and invite the reader to the self-organised ensembles of social life that are launched every day and every night amid the general antagonism of the undercommons.
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intro’d to minor compositions while reading Moten and Harney‘s the undercommons.. (ref’d it often for verbiage/concept clarifications)
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follow minor compositions:
is a series of interventions & provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life
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be you. 