Scholars, poets, and organizers reflect on the genocide in Gaza and the current moment in relation to Nicholas Mirzoeff’s recent VAGABONDS book To See in the Dark: Palestine and Visual Activism Since October 7. With contributions from Nicholas Mirzoeff, the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy, MPA, Priscilla Wathington, Omar Zahzah, Steve Dickison, Jill Casid, and Max Haiven.
How should an anti-Zionist Jew respond to the genocide in Gaza and its ramifications? This was the subject of my book To See in the Dark: Palestine and Visual Activism Since October 7 (2025). It was published on January 20, … Continue reading “Undefeated Despair”
In March 2025, comrades from across the San Franciso Bay Area and beyond gathered across two facilitated convergence spaces to host Nick Mirzoeff and explore his concept of “seeing in the dark,” a provocation currently in circulation through his recently … Continue reading “Visual Activism C-Map”
All day, the talk is lint. Committees meet and look at their calendars. The carpet hardly moves. The lobby doesn’t even smell of corpses. It’s Monday here. There’s a salad bar here. In Rafah, a wall is blown off … Continue reading “The Clock Men”
“Do You Condemn Hamas?” Do you know the weight of 77 years’ worth of bones, villages, and homes? The sound of olive trees screaming through flames? Do you confuse prison break With apocalypse, Genocide with self-defense, Or do you know … Continue reading “Five Poems”
Look at the world that was blind to us before and how it sees us now. –Ibrahim Nasrallah, translated by Huda J. Fakhreddine, Palestinian: Four Poems Here are some notes from the two days of Nicholas Mirzoeff’s Bay Area … Continue reading ““All-over-the-placelessness”: I Read To See in the Dark from the Inside Out”
How to do things with being undone? How to forge solidary bonds in the dark of the rubble of a world destroyed but also the dark of a collective unconscious, a night, a space for sounding otherwise? To open Nicholas … Continue reading “To Bond in the Dark”
I would like to take this opportunity to contextualize Nicholas Mirzoeff’s To See in the Dark as part of VAGABONDS, the series of short, pamphlet-like books I edit for Pluto Press. I founded VAGABONDS in 2020 based on three frustrations. … Continue reading “A Vagabond in the Rubble, a Book in the Dark”
