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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.

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

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.

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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 BooksAndré Breton, necropolitics, and 100 years of surrealism.lareviewofbooks.org

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

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