Kitty Summers Interracial Pool Party John Persons Updated May 2026

Some critics have accused Persons of nihilism, of using Summers’ hopeful work as a punching bag for his own cynical thesis about technological determinism. But this misreads his project. Persons does not destroy Summers’ vision; he archives its impossibility under current conditions. The original Interracial Pool Party still exists, if you know where to look—on torrent sites, in private Discord servers, in the artist’s own hard drive. But its public life, its ability to circulate and persuade, has been amputated. Updated simply makes that amputation visible. In doing so, it asks a devastating question: What good is a radical image if the infrastructure of seeing is programmed to reject it?

We’re two decades into the “post-racial” myth collapsing. What Kitty Summers offers—and what Persons’ update celebrates—is a . kitty summers interracial pool party john persons updated