The old world is dying. The new world is struggling to be born. We are the combination: historical transition, nervous collapse, unpaid admin and one final email beginning “just circling back.”

New essay: “The Socialisation Capital Cannot Produce.” Reading Mario Tronti on the gap between social cooperation and capitalist command—and why capital’s dependence on living labour is where struggle begins. nihilistoptimism.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

The Socialisation Capital Cannot Produce

Capital cannot produce social cooperation by itself. It must make living labour carry it – and that dependence is where struggle begins. The...

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Happy 101st birthday to Alexander Trocchi. Project Sigma still feels unfinished rather than historical: publishing as self-organised networks, shared infrastructure, direct circulation and social space – not more content for platforms, but autonomous media for another life.

few days off, catching up on reading this great book ”CERFI ANALYSIS EVERYWHERE” written by Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira published by @minorcompositions.bsky.social as much as my niece and nephew allow me www.minorcompositions.info?p=1661

Raoul Vaneigem has died. He leaves us no instruction manual, thankfully – only an insistence that everyday life can still be stolen back from work, boredom and obedience: in argument, song, drink, dance, love, revolt and the invention of new poetry.

Now available on all the usual podcast platforms. What’s the Use? Entanglement, Indebtedness, and Minor Socialities Discussion with Erin Manning and Giovanni Marmont for a conversation about how use might be detached from productivity, mastery, and measurable achievement.

“Dada is the Western Now, a Zen that employs fullness instead of emptiness, so much fullness, in fact, that there isn’t enough matter to fill its fullness, so it resorts to imagination in order to create ever more paradisiacal objets, better iPods made from shredded dreams.” – Andrei Codrescu

On 25 July 1867, Marx signed the preface to Capital, Volume I. Political economy, he warned, summons the “violent, mean and malignant passions” of private interest. Scientific criticism is welcome; concessions to so-called public opinion are not. The Furies remain busy.

Stafford Beer turning Marx into diagrams #cybernetic #classwar

Pretty stoked to get mail this morning. Thanks @copim.bsky.social and @minorcompositions.bsky.social! (Some @concordiapress.bsky.social titles on the right..)

One or several Jimothies. Freud hears of six or seven Jimothies in a tree, sees five drawn, and declares neurosis. But every child knows Jimothies travel in packs. A Jimothy is never one: compact of spine, short of tail, already a multiplicity. Do not interpret it. Follow the pack.

Today would have been Frantz Fanon’s 101st birthday. His engagement with football remains under-appreciated: he would surely have despised the corrupt, hyper-capitalist spectacle of this World Cup. The answer is not abandonment, but reclaiming football as a radical commons.

Caption contest: what is comically unhinged idea is Franco 'Bifo' Berardi suggesting to Félix Guattari here? And what does Félix make of it?

While many celebrate the World Cup, we’d rather celebrate community football and proletarian internationalism – with this banger from Clapton CFC vs New York International. The best football is free jazz: collective, unruly, alive. Soundtrack: Peter Brötzmann.

Happening tomorrow evening. @acidhorizon.bsky.social

C. L. R. James, refusing the eternal meeting agenda since 1948. The task is not to perfect organization until it rules over collective life, but to develop the capacity for people to think, act and create together without being commanded.

New MC Podcast — S2E7: Enduring Otherwise Ferdiansyah Thajib joins us to discuss queer and trans Muslim worldmaking in Indonesia: affective ethnography, Sharia law, care, contradiction, trans-run hair salons and the everyday work of making life otherwise. Now streaming on all the usual platforms.

With the World Cup reaching its final stages, a timely return to Minor Compositions Podcast Ep. 16: Sports & the Avant-Garde. Przemysław Strożek joins us to discuss workers’ sport, the Workers’ Olympics, Spartakiads – and what happens when art, politics and the pitch collide.

“surrealism is increasingly understood today as a set of tactics of resistance that activate collective symptoms of disgust and despair.” – Abigail Susik, from “Organizing Pessimism”

Organizing Pessimism | Los Angeles Review of Books

André Breton, necropolitics, and 100 years of surrealism.

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Alan Moore on genre, but also maybe on anarchism more broadly: the interesting part begins when rules stop being sacred and start becoming material to work on, against, and through. “They’re there to be pulverized.”

"Poetry is a manufacture." – Vladimir Mayakovsky, How Are Verses Made (1926) A useful reminder that poems aren't simply found – they're made. Possibly with equal parts rhythm, revision, cigarettes, and unreasonable confidence.

Music: the dangerous stuff that makes even stern revolutionaries emotionally available. Lenin, allegedly overcome by beauty, nerves, and the politically destabilising desire to say “stupid nice things.” Also: cat praxis. #Lenin #Music #CatsOfTheRevolution

I was pleased to contribute to this collectively-authored book and to receive my physical copy earlier this week! The book was published using an experimental technical infrastructure and was one of the pilot projects that we nurtured over the course of the Open Book Futures project.

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Now available for direct order from Minor Compositions: Publishing as Collective Infrastructure. What if a book wasn’t an endpoint, but an infrastructure? A collective experiment in feminist servers, open-source tools, and autonomous knowledge production. www.minorcompositions.info?p=1918

Now available for direct order from Minor Compositions: Publishing as Collective Infrastructure. What if a book wasn’t an endpoint, but an infrastructure? A collective experiment in feminist servers, open-source tools, and autonomous knowledge production. www.minorcompositions.info?p=1918

The social factory has a body. For Tronti, productive labour is labour that produces capital – and reproduces its command over us. But as labour becomes social, so does refusal. The same force capital needs to live is also the force that can bring it to a halt.

The Sad Fate of the Productive Worker

In this section of Workers and Capital , Mario Tronti returns to one of Marx’s most unsettling claims: that to be a productive worker under ...

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Tabling tomorrow at the Summer Fair at Café OTO, the best venue in the world. 11AM-6PM. Interesting publishers & labels, great food and music. 11AM-6PM. See you there. www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/cafe-...

Book Launch Abolishing Capitalist Totality Berlin – July 2nd @ 19:30 Laden 2 Berlin Brunnenstr. 65, Berlin, Germany

Prosfygika, a powerful example of an urban common. It must be supported. Silvia Federici, May 2026 www.minorcompositions.info?p=1910

Book launch *CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry*, by Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira, with Ana Jara, Tiago Mota Saraiva and the authors Lisbon, Tigre de Papel, Saturday 27 June, at 6.00 pm

Apresentação do livro CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry, de Susana Caló e Godofredo Enes Pereira

Apresentação

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Fire Tribes and Stateless Worlds: A Conversation Bima Satria Putra, David Wengrow, and Stevphen Shukaitis

Fire Tribes and Stateless Worlds: A Conversation - Journal #164

Bima Satria Putra, David Wengrow, and Stevphen Shukaitis discuss Indigenous anarchism in Indonesia.

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