Installation shots from 𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙣𝙤. 1-5, still on view at Stump Gallery through Feb 15th ! thank you so much to Will and Ray for trusting me with this project. This is the last weekend to see it in person 🎱 Soon, I will be posting the full write-up on my website, which covers Baudrillard and a philosophy of teeth. Fichte called! he said ❤️ = ❤️
for those of you unable to get a print copy, my short fiction piece A RUBBER BAND EXTENDED TO ITS NATURAL END for the Goose Egg is now online !! 🏹 link in bio
I have had a rough life so far, but my luck seems to be turning lately and I'm feeling exceedingly grateful to still be here :-)
This piece is close to my heart. It follows an elderly and homeless Chicano person named Mars as they roam the southwest dealing with the loss of their two brothers to the violence of poverty, of racism, of imperialism. This story was originally denied by a magazine that wanted me to edit it into something else, something more understandable. Yet I couldn't change it, because the fragmentation that trauma causes is distorting, and doesn't always make a lot of sense from the outside. I decided not to move forward with that magazine and this was part of my response to them in 2024: "This thing I am trying to talk about, the thing I am attempting to describe is a sense of overwhelming loss which constitutes not just a person, but a culture and a people. It is inestimable and precisely where language fails us."
I had coffee with a Chicana socialist organizer the other day and she said to me, "It's hard to organize us. There is a lot of trauma in our community. It's hard to build trust." If there is anything I want to convey with this story it is that people react to the trauma of oppression in lots of ways that aren't always pretty. And it's our responsibility to stick together anyway. I ended this story on a hopeful note, a happy memory of what it was like to be surrounded by those you love while you still have them. Casey makes fun of me sometimes and says, "You are the most hopeful person I know, that's why you are in so much pain all the time." So here's to the pain of hope!
The work of Daniel Stroh and Rex Morris provide an inroad into a philosophy of trash and subaltern studies. In A Critical Garbology, I reread Bataille’s notion of necessary waste through the lens of contemporary Nahua scholarship. Enjoy the hors d'oeuvres because I was working under the constraints of a word limit, and this topic deserves a return at greater length. Thank you to everyone @modacriticalreview and my beautiful editor @rubygdawes for such careful work. I had lots o fun interviewing these two and researching this piece. I know you’ll have fun reading it! link on my website xx
I first met Janick as a fellow student in a phenomenology class, and we connected over our shared love of theory. We have read so many books together over the years, it warms my heart to think about. It is rare to enough to find someone so courageous, kind, funny, radical, and intelligent and it’s even rarer to find them all in one person. After we were students, we became coworkers at the same coffee shop. As a coworker he was dependable, respectful, timely, always went above and beyond for everyone there. Then, we were comrades together. As an organizer, he stood up against some of our liberal friends in defense of a homeless man that I was housing. That’s when I knew that we would be lifetime friends. He demonstrated marrying theory and practice, what a true Leftist morality is in act. As a friend, I feel safe that when I call he will always answer, a healthy friendship I can’t say I have ever felt before. As a roommate, I feel lucky to share a space with him. I honestly wouldn’t be able to be without having been shown what healthy love feels like over these past couple years. I pray that he returns home safe from Beirut, where Israel is carrying out a devastating campaign of violence. He is out there donating blood so the hospitals have enough.🪻I love you🪻 Bar Setting Activity By Mr Yonnie
nuclear cinema x CINEMA WITH COMRADES present: The Fifth Seal (1976)
nuclear collaborates with CINEMA WITH COMRADES for a special screening.
The Fifth Seal (1976), directed by Zoltán Fábri, follows a group of men in wartime Hungary as they’re forced to confront an impossible question: if you had to choose, would you be the cruel slave master or the suffering slave who is at least morally innocent?
Set largely in a single night, the film moves from a quiet bar conversation to a devastating interrogation of conscience under fascism. What starts as a philosophical game becomes brutally real when the police arrive.
A masterpiece of Hungarian cinema. An arrestingly spiky political cabaret of cruelty and fear.
CINEMA WITH COMRADES is a NYC-DSA film screening series across the city. A combination of political education and socialist hangs.
Free screening
Intro from Lara @lararosalararosa and Nathaniel @_ntnl (CINEMA WITH COMRADES)
April 26
7pm
SPRING (BAR), 116 Madison St.
It was such a pleasure to speak to Judith Butler last night. In their speech at Riverside Church on Hegel, they gave a compelling portrait of contemporary masculinity in light of the Epstein files. Masculinity not as mere biological reductionism but as a logic that extends beyond gender: the logic that a person can at will renounce their social obligations. In the case of the files, these men felt a joy, a freedom and a power in not having any social obligations to strangers (the victims) but also to their wives, who were victims in a different way. No matter how close the ties are, they experienced masculine freedom in renouncing their obligations without consequences, and in the power to break promises — even to their closest loved ones. By resisting simple explanations, Butler reminded us that you don’t have to be a man, or a billionaire, to perform the logic of masculinity.
(photo of sebastian skaggs, a homeless, elderly autistic man that I moved into my studio apartment. I was his caretaker off and on for 2 years. pictured is where he slept in my living room. we love each other very much :-)
have you tried to get your coworkers to consider unionizing but they don’t see the point? not enough time to explain to them the imperative of socialism, all the while looking over your shoulder to see if your manager is listening? well now you can send them over to me ! I am happy to share I'll be teaching Socialism 101s with @nycdsa ! This class is free and designed for people that have no previous knowledge of socialist ideas and are curious to learn the basics. From here on out we’ll be repeating the class every second and fourth Tuesday of the month, so if you miss one don’t worry, just come to the next ! link to rsvp on my site.
(p.s. a student of mine alerted me to the fact that the sign up link shows the class this Tues is full, but please show up anyway and we will make room! you know, the ole lefty aphorism about building a longer table not a higher wall.)
(film dump of lauren, sam and lucius and jonah)
I'm so excited to invite you to my inaugural solo show! yes, you. come see 5 never-before-seen works
𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙣𝙤. 1-5
70 John Street, Brooklyn, NY
opening jan 30th
6-8p
The work will be on view through February 15th, 2026.
