Minor Compositions is a publisher of books and media drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life.

  • Adventures in Sound & Music with John Gruntfest

    Adventures in Sound & Music Broadcast on Resonance FM with John Gruntfest & Stevphen Shukaitis Minor Compositions editor Stevphen Shukaitis is hosting a radio show on the work of free jazz saxophonist and poet John Gruntfest. The show will broadcast Thursday April 7 from 9-10:30PM on Adventures in Sound & Music produced by music magazine The Wire,…

  • Occupation Culture: Art & Squatting in the City from Below

    Occupation Culture: Art & Squatting in the City from Below

    Occupation Culture: Art & Squatting in the City from Below Alan W. Moore Occupation Culture is the story of a journey through the world of recent political squatting in Europe, told by a veteran of the 1970s and ‘80s New York punk art scene. It is also a kind of scholar adventure story. Alan W.…

  • Crisis to Insurrection. Notes on the ongoing collapse

    Crisis to Insurrection. Notes on the ongoing collapse

    Crisis to Insurrection. Notes on the ongoing collapse Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen The crisis runs deep. The economies of the US and Europe are in profound crisis and the developing economies are also beginning to feel its effects. Everywhere it is workers who are paying the price. The crisis is being socialized and austerity is the…

  • Occupation Culture Event London June 26

    Occupation Culture Event London June 26

    Occupation Culture 12 – 7PM, June 26 @ MAYDAY ROOMS 88 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1DH, United Kingdom How has squatting contributed to the production of art and culture? During times where the cost of rent and living rises well beyond the ability of cultural workers to support themselves in the metropolis, squatting has played an…

  • Fuel to Fight DS30: Test Dept Film & Book Event

    Fuel to Fight DS30: Test Dept Film & Book Event June 13 @ 6PM, firstsite, Colchester Followed by party at the Waiting Room The legendary London industrial noise musicians Test Dept are presenting a special screening of their film DS30 at the firstsite on the 13 June. Marking 30 years since the 1984-5 miners’ strike,…

  • Cosmonauts of the Future: Texts from the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere

    Cosmonauts of the Future: Texts from the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere

    Cosmonauts of the Future: Texts from the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere Edited by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen & Jakob Jakobsen First ever English-language anthology of the Scandinavian Situationists This is the first ever English-language anthology collecting texts and documents from the still little-known Scandinavian part of the Situationist movement. The book covers over three…

  • Retrograde London 2014

    Retrograde London 2014 Tuesday 16th December 7pm @ The Horse Hospital Join us for an evening of discussion in the shadow of the NSK State… 30 years after the creation Neue Slowenische Kunst, join us for an evening exploring the aesthetic universe and the state created by these challenging Slovene artists. This special evening will…

  • State in Time

    State in Time

    State in Time Edited by IRWIN Become a citizen of the first global state of the universe! The NSK State in Time emerged in 1992, evolving in the context of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the transformation Neue Slowenische Kunst. Existing both as an artwork and a social formation, a state that encompasses all time…

  • Class Wargames Book Launch London 25 October

    Class Wargames Book Launch London 25 October Red Gallery 1-3 Rivington St, London EC2A 3DT Richard Barbrook Class Wargames: ludic subversion against spectacular capitalism “In a world become ‘game-ified’ against its will, Class Wargames  provides the field manual for the only game that matters – that of history.” – McKenzie Wark 5.00-7.00pm: collective games playing…

  • Class Wargames

    Class Wargames: Ludic subversion against spectacular capitalism Richard Barbrook Why should radicals be interested in playing wargames? Surely the Left can have no interest in such militarist fantasies? Yet, Guy Debord – the leader of the Situationist International – placed such importance on his invention of The Game of War described it as his most…