“This book is about how to intellectually be together,” says Abigail Satinsky, associate director of Threewalls, pulling out a copy of “The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study,” by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten.
“It’s about how everyday social life, outside of academic institutions, forms a kind of intellectual practice,” adds artist Anthony Romero, Satinsky’s partner. The two are engaged (literally speaking — but also with several overlapping ideas and projects).
We’re intellectually hanging out in their Logan Square apartment, which is crammed with books on social change, radical histories of the ’60s and ’70s (Black Panthers, Young Lords), various DIY movements and more.
“Our interests are always sort of dipping in and out of each other’s,” Satinsky says.
Moten is their favorite writer together, and they enjoy poetry and picking up “weird editions of things” in used bookstores whenever they travel.
One thing they don’t collect? Fiction. And yet their library remains pretty novel.