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Art and Education

Why the Art World’s Silence on Nuclear Energy Matters, Part II — The Kernel, by Generation Atomic — April 2025

Why the Art World’s Silence on Nuclear Energy Matters, Part IThe Kernel, by Generation Atomic — April 2025

What We Choose to Fear Will Shape What We Become, Spring 2025

From Thanatophilia to Necropolitics: On the work of SEMEFO and Teresa Margolles, 1990–Now, Presented at the 2015 California College of the Arts Curatorial Practice Graduate Symposium


Books

Benjamin Labatut’s “When We Cease to Understand the World” (2021)

“Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power” by James Mahaffey (2010)

“Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation” by Timothy J. Jorgensen (2016)


Films and TV

The New Corporation (2022), plus notes on AI and nuclear energy

Taking on the Nuclear Nightmare in Black Mirror’s ‘Demon 79’ (2023)

A Puerto Rican Perspective on Alex Garland’s “Civil War” (2024)

‘Fallout’ (2024) — Atomic Age Dystopia, Reimagined

“Threads” (1984)

Reflections on the film “A Cruel Wind Blows” (2019) and my experience in Kazakhstan as part of the Art in Embassies program of the US Department of State in Astana and Almaty in 2023

A Revisitation of ‘The Atomic Café’ (1982)

‘Pandora’s Promise’ (2013) and the Nuclear Debate

Unraveling the Human Narrative in ‘The Bomb’ (2016)

The Twilight Zone’s Tackling of Atomic Age Anxieties

Racing Beyond the Moon: Reimagining the Atomic Age in “For All Mankind”

On Being Gay in the Atomic Age: A Reflection on the Depiction of the Red and Lavender Scares and the AIDS Crisis in “Fellow Travelers”

The film Oppenheimer, seen through my eyes