A.V. Marraccini (@saintsoftness) / X

A.V. Marraccini

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A.V. Marraccini

@saintsoftness

essayist + art historian ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES bit.ly/3M1UtKm ⎔ Critic In Residence at IDM NYU ⎔ THESE NEW FRAGILITIES 2028 w/@7StoriesPress ⎔ Pliny 🐈

Brooklyn

Joined December 2009

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A.V. Marraccini
@saintsoftness
Jun 3
Manuscript of These New Fragilities delivered to @7StoriesPress! Excited for you all to see it in early 2028– and also with @7storiespressuk!
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A.V. Marraccini
@saintsoftness
Nov 16, 2024
Honestly, “it’s so fucking blue” is an astute critique. I support.
Claire Penis
@ZeroSuitCamus
Dec 28, 2023
Yves Klein Blue Monochrome. Here’s a high school class on a field trip staring in complete awe at it. They made fun of every other painting on the floor but when they got to this one they just kept repeating “it’s so blue” “how is it so blue” “it’s so fucking blue” etc
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A.V. Marraccini
@saintsoftness
Jun 16, 2024
So, Japanese strawberry varietals: I'm in deep. Too deep. There are CHARTS with MULTIPLE AXES. This naturally speaks to me. Behold:
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A.V. Marraccini
@saintsoftness
Jan 6, 2025
This is Tan Dun’s Water Concerto. Tan Dun was born in a village in Hunan and learned to play traditional string instruments while he worked as a rice planter during the Cultural Revolution so “rich parents” and “degree in water music” could not be more wrong. Cultural ingrates.
Interesting AF
@interesting_aIl
Jan 5, 2025
POV: Rich parents watching their kid graduate with a degree in water music
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A.V. Marraccini
@saintsoftness
Aug 27, 2025
This film is on YouTube for free. I am so, so in for a 9 hour documentary about a decline of an industrial district in China. If this is a trap, I absolutely took the bait.
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A.V. Marraccini
@saintsoftness
Jan 25, 2024
Ana Mendiata, we will remember you forever. The man who killed you can die in ignominy.
ARTnews
@artnews
Jan 24, 2024
Carl Andre, a sculptor who was among the foremost artists associated with the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s, died on Wednesday at 88. artnews.com/art-news/news/…
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A.V. Marraccini
@saintsoftness
Mar 2, 2025
I'm sorry, but reflecting back on Internet History, I don't think anything can top the Lockheed Martin nepo hire YA slop person trying to dogpile me by saying expecting authors to read is ableist. When that info dropped three weeks or so later, it did not drop as far as my jaw.
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@saintsoftness
Jul 20, 2025
I got busted for taking this photo of my old buddy’s cloud studies that I’ve loved since undergrad so you all better enjoy it! We’ve been on a cloud study binge on the TL, I know!
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@saintsoftness
Mar 2, 2025
You're not apolitical; you choose to live a life wherein the suffering of other human beings is beneath your concern. You choose not to do something or say anything in order to privilege your individual comfort at all costs. To be "apolitical" is really a politics of selfishness.
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@saintsoftness
Sep 7, 2024
Fun fact: it is the most basic feminist principle that even if you love clothes, makeup, and looking cute in a fairly mainstream femme way (and I do!), you still don’t want to be *structurally compelled* to do so as a pre-condition for your public intellectual work.
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A.V. Marraccini
@saintsoftness
Apr 30, 2024
If you're following Columbia, turn on WKCR right now-- it seems like the cops are cordoning off even public streets and there are no legal observers allowed in, but NYPD counterterrorism units are massing. Listening to the police state prepare to pounce in real time, ghastly.
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A.V. Marraccini
@saintsoftness
Nov 2, 2022
Replying to @JortsTheCat and @AgnesCallard
Fun fact Jorts: this is the professor best known for crossing a picket full of struggling University of Chicago grad workers and justifying it as a “philosophical emergency”. This is therefore and unsurprising turn. Cruelty to workers—> cruelty to children. Checks out.
A.V. Marraccini
@saintsoftness
Jun 5, 2024
This is Brianna Ghey. She was murdered last year in the UK due to a rise in transphobic rhetoric spearheaded by Rowling. They targeted her because of her gender identity. Know her name. And never buy a @moleskine or any other Harry Potter product that supports Rowling’s profits.
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@saintsoftness
Jul 16, 2025
I really enjoyed the risks this book took, its grossness, the way it figured womanhood in relation to biological decay and unexpected lyricism of the fungal edge. It's imperfect, but important to me.
gregory conway
@gregorymconway
Jul 16, 2025
One sitting read today, couldn’t stop. @VersoBooks
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