Julián Esteban Torres López
@jetorreslopez.bsky.social
A polymathic exploration of imagination and liberation. Public scholarship, conversations, creative writing, music, prose, digital collages. Finished works + works-in-progress unfolding in real time. Creation from being, not frameworks. jetorreslopez.com
Reposted by Julián Esteban Torres López
On #kyriarchy, #intersectionality, disgust as infrastructure, & why those subjected to #InstitutionalViolence communicate in signs administrators are trained not to read.
A machinery analysis.
If #liberation feels like destruction, that’s because it is.
jetorreslopez.substack.com/p/the-parlia...
A machinery analysis.
If #liberation feels like destruction, that’s because it is.
jetorreslopez.substack.com/p/the-parlia...
The Parliament of the Flattened
In a disguise of silence, the silhouettes of marionettes discuss the cost of disgust via the language of signs—assigned as such to replace the intolerance of violence against bodies and minds like min...
jetorreslopez.substack.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:37 PM
On #kyriarchy, #intersectionality, disgust as infrastructure, & why those subjected to #InstitutionalViolence communicate in signs administrators are trained not to read.
A machinery analysis.
If #liberation feels like destruction, that’s because it is.
jetorreslopez.substack.com/p/the-parlia...
A machinery analysis.
If #liberation feels like destruction, that’s because it is.
jetorreslopez.substack.com/p/the-parlia...
New essay: “¿Nos ahogamos Where Overwhelm Has No Shore?”
On simultaneity, cascading perception, somatic weight, and the failure of language to carry lived experience that happens all at once.
Not an explanation. A demonstration.
Read:
jetorreslopez.substack.com/p/nos-ahogam...
#Neurodivergence
On simultaneity, cascading perception, somatic weight, and the failure of language to carry lived experience that happens all at once.
Not an explanation. A demonstration.
Read:
jetorreslopez.substack.com/p/nos-ahogam...
#Neurodivergence
¿Nos ahogamos Where Overwhelm Has No Shore?
My psychologist asked me how I’m feeling today, and I said: “Overwhelmed.” But that’s not right.
jetorreslopez.substack.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:05 PM
New essay: “¿Nos ahogamos Where Overwhelm Has No Shore?”
On simultaneity, cascading perception, somatic weight, and the failure of language to carry lived experience that happens all at once.
Not an explanation. A demonstration.
Read:
jetorreslopez.substack.com/p/nos-ahogam...
#Neurodivergence
On simultaneity, cascading perception, somatic weight, and the failure of language to carry lived experience that happens all at once.
Not an explanation. A demonstration.
Read:
jetorreslopez.substack.com/p/nos-ahogam...
#Neurodivergence
On #kyriarchy, #intersectionality, disgust as infrastructure, & why those subjected to #InstitutionalViolence communicate in signs administrators are trained not to read.
A machinery analysis.
If #liberation feels like destruction, that’s because it is.
jetorreslopez.substack.com/p/the-parlia...
A machinery analysis.
If #liberation feels like destruction, that’s because it is.
jetorreslopez.substack.com/p/the-parlia...
The Parliament of the Flattened
In a disguise of silence, the silhouettes of marionettes discuss the cost of disgust via the language of signs—assigned as such to replace the intolerance of violence against bodies and minds like min...
jetorreslopez.substack.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:37 PM
On #kyriarchy, #intersectionality, disgust as infrastructure, & why those subjected to #InstitutionalViolence communicate in signs administrators are trained not to read.
A machinery analysis.
If #liberation feels like destruction, that’s because it is.
jetorreslopez.substack.com/p/the-parlia...
A machinery analysis.
If #liberation feels like destruction, that’s because it is.
jetorreslopez.substack.com/p/the-parlia...
Reposted by Julián Esteban Torres López
new: ¿"Nos ahogamos Where Overwhelm Has No Shore?"
An attempt to language the unlanguageable—¿what happens when "overwhelmed" isn't the right word, when the experience exceeds what language can hold, and you try to trace the actual thing?
#neurodivergent #writing
open.substack.com/pub/jetorres...
An attempt to language the unlanguageable—¿what happens when "overwhelmed" isn't the right word, when the experience exceeds what language can hold, and you try to trace the actual thing?
#neurodivergent #writing
open.substack.com/pub/jetorres...
¿Nos ahogamos Where Overwhelm Has No Shore?
My psychologist asked me how I’m feeling today, and I said: “Overwhelmed.” But that’s not right.
open.substack.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:54 PM
new: ¿"Nos ahogamos Where Overwhelm Has No Shore?"
An attempt to language the unlanguageable—¿what happens when "overwhelmed" isn't the right word, when the experience exceeds what language can hold, and you try to trace the actual thing?
#neurodivergent #writing
open.substack.com/pub/jetorres...
An attempt to language the unlanguageable—¿what happens when "overwhelmed" isn't the right word, when the experience exceeds what language can hold, and you try to trace the actual thing?
#neurodivergent #writing
open.substack.com/pub/jetorres...
new: ¿"Nos ahogamos Where Overwhelm Has No Shore?"
An attempt to language the unlanguageable—¿what happens when "overwhelmed" isn't the right word, when the experience exceeds what language can hold, and you try to trace the actual thing?
#neurodivergent #writing
open.substack.com/pub/jetorres...
An attempt to language the unlanguageable—¿what happens when "overwhelmed" isn't the right word, when the experience exceeds what language can hold, and you try to trace the actual thing?
#neurodivergent #writing
open.substack.com/pub/jetorres...
¿Nos ahogamos Where Overwhelm Has No Shore?
My psychologist asked me how I’m feeling today, and I said: “Overwhelmed.” But that’s not right.
open.substack.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:54 PM
new: ¿"Nos ahogamos Where Overwhelm Has No Shore?"
An attempt to language the unlanguageable—¿what happens when "overwhelmed" isn't the right word, when the experience exceeds what language can hold, and you try to trace the actual thing?
#neurodivergent #writing
open.substack.com/pub/jetorres...
An attempt to language the unlanguageable—¿what happens when "overwhelmed" isn't the right word, when the experience exceeds what language can hold, and you try to trace the actual thing?
#neurodivergent #writing
open.substack.com/pub/jetorres...
Meaning accretes irreversibly, somatically, and recursively, faster than language can sequentially express it.
January 3, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Meaning accretes irreversibly, somatically, and recursively, faster than language can sequentially express it.
How many coats
does it take
to get coded?
does it take
to get coded?
December 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
How many coats
does it take
to get coded?
does it take
to get coded?
Perhaps (T)ruth-discourse is less like mountaineering and more like trying to measure water with nets?
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Perhaps (T)ruth-discourse is less like mountaineering and more like trying to measure water with nets?
Best sentence I read this week: “Before was was was, was was is.”
December 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Best sentence I read this week: “Before was was was, was was is.”
Oftentimes, when we experience a work of art—like a painting, a poem, a performance, a film, or a song—we are asked how the piece made us feel or what it made us think about or what it helped us remember. I wish more people asked, “What did the piece help you forget?”
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Oftentimes, when we experience a work of art—like a painting, a poem, a performance, a film, or a song—we are asked how the piece made us feel or what it made us think about or what it helped us remember. I wish more people asked, “What did the piece help you forget?”
Standards for how well people should remember are often unattainable.
June 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Standards for how well people should remember are often unattainable.
Sometimes, you have to speak up. Other times, you have to act out.
May 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Sometimes, you have to speak up. Other times, you have to act out.
I yearn for connection even in silence.
March 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I yearn for connection even in silence.
Titles don't make leaders, nor does leadership require titles.
February 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Titles don't make leaders, nor does leadership require titles.
Fun birthday fact since today is mine!
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
The difficulty, of course, is knowing when Venus' actual date of birth was, as our archives don't have its birth certificate.
Don't spend a year (Earth or Venusian) thinking about this.
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
The difficulty, of course, is knowing when Venus' actual date of birth was, as our archives don't have its birth certificate.
Don't spend a year (Earth or Venusian) thinking about this.
February 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Fun birthday fact since today is mine!
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
The difficulty, of course, is knowing when Venus' actual date of birth was, as our archives don't have its birth certificate.
Don't spend a year (Earth or Venusian) thinking about this.
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
The difficulty, of course, is knowing when Venus' actual date of birth was, as our archives don't have its birth certificate.
Don't spend a year (Earth or Venusian) thinking about this.
I've taught myself how to create bilateral stimulation music and 8D music. Working on an album that incorporates these immersive and therapeutic experiences.
In the meantime, you can listen to my previous albums albums!
www.jetorreslopez.com/albums
#Music #MusicTherapy #8DMusic #ADHD
In the meantime, you can listen to my previous albums albums!
www.jetorreslopez.com/albums
#Music #MusicTherapy #8DMusic #ADHD
Albums — Julián Esteban Torres López
www.jetorreslopez.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I've taught myself how to create bilateral stimulation music and 8D music. Working on an album that incorporates these immersive and therapeutic experiences.
In the meantime, you can listen to my previous albums albums!
www.jetorreslopez.com/albums
#Music #MusicTherapy #8DMusic #ADHD
In the meantime, you can listen to my previous albums albums!
www.jetorreslopez.com/albums
#Music #MusicTherapy #8DMusic #ADHD
Reminder that you are not a brand. You are a complex, nuanced, flawed, multi-faceted human being. Be kind to yourself and give yourself some grace.
February 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Reminder that you are not a brand. You are a complex, nuanced, flawed, multi-faceted human being. Be kind to yourself and give yourself some grace.
Our hierarchies have become so normal people forget they were invented.
February 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Our hierarchies have become so normal people forget they were invented.
Hi algorithm, please connect me with
avant-garde and experimental artists of all forms and styles (audio, music, visual, word, performance, etc.)
avant-garde and experimental artists of all forms and styles (audio, music, visual, word, performance, etc.)
January 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hi algorithm, please connect me with
avant-garde and experimental artists of all forms and styles (audio, music, visual, word, performance, etc.)
avant-garde and experimental artists of all forms and styles (audio, music, visual, word, performance, etc.)
Something has never sat well with me about the term "marginalized voices." "Marginalized voices" seems to reduce complex histories of systematic oppression to a passive phrase that obscures both the oppressors and the fullness of peoples' experiences and existence, both historically and presently.
January 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Something has never sat well with me about the term "marginalized voices." "Marginalized voices" seems to reduce complex histories of systematic oppression to a passive phrase that obscures both the oppressors and the fullness of peoples' experiences and existence, both historically and presently.
Despite this, it’s vital to embrace your individuality and intellectual or artistic pursuits, even when they challenge conventional understanding.
Friendly reminder:
It’s not always that you don’t make sense, are unclear, or that your ideas lack meaning—often, it’s that others struggle to connect with your ideas, miss the value in your insights, interpret things differently, or have perspectives that don’t align.
It’s not always that you don’t make sense, are unclear, or that your ideas lack meaning—often, it’s that others struggle to connect with your ideas, miss the value in your insights, interpret things differently, or have perspectives that don’t align.
January 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Despite this, it’s vital to embrace your individuality and intellectual or artistic pursuits, even when they challenge conventional understanding.
Friendly reminder:
It’s not always that you don’t make sense, are unclear, or that your ideas lack meaning—often, it’s that others struggle to connect with your ideas, miss the value in your insights, interpret things differently, or have perspectives that don’t align.
It’s not always that you don’t make sense, are unclear, or that your ideas lack meaning—often, it’s that others struggle to connect with your ideas, miss the value in your insights, interpret things differently, or have perspectives that don’t align.
January 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Friendly reminder:
It’s not always that you don’t make sense, are unclear, or that your ideas lack meaning—often, it’s that others struggle to connect with your ideas, miss the value in your insights, interpret things differently, or have perspectives that don’t align.
It’s not always that you don’t make sense, are unclear, or that your ideas lack meaning—often, it’s that others struggle to connect with your ideas, miss the value in your insights, interpret things differently, or have perspectives that don’t align.
Question:
Have you ever considered how far back in time and space you’d need to go before speakers of your language would no longer understand you and perceive your speech as a foreign language?
Have you ever considered how far back in time and space you’d need to go before speakers of your language would no longer understand you and perceive your speech as a foreign language?
January 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Question:
Have you ever considered how far back in time and space you’d need to go before speakers of your language would no longer understand you and perceive your speech as a foreign language?
Have you ever considered how far back in time and space you’d need to go before speakers of your language would no longer understand you and perceive your speech as a foreign language?
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The Future is more ancient
than the Past.
The gray hairs on its beard
outnumber those
of History’s youth.
The Past is the child of Time.
Humbled by its mortality
it matures.
Read more #Poetry at...
www.jetorreslopez.com/books-as-aut...
The Future is more ancient
than the Past.
The gray hairs on its beard
outnumber those
of History’s youth.
The Past is the child of Time.
Humbled by its mortality
it matures.
Read more #Poetry at...
www.jetorreslopez.com/books-as-aut...
Ninety-Two Surgically Enhanced Mannequins: A Micro-Poetry Collection — Julián Esteban Torres López
www.jetorreslopez.com
January 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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The Future is more ancient
than the Past.
The gray hairs on its beard
outnumber those
of History’s youth.
The Past is the child of Time.
Humbled by its mortality
it matures.
Read more #Poetry at...
www.jetorreslopez.com/books-as-aut...
The Future is more ancient
than the Past.
The gray hairs on its beard
outnumber those
of History’s youth.
The Past is the child of Time.
Humbled by its mortality
it matures.
Read more #Poetry at...
www.jetorreslopez.com/books-as-aut...