A breathtaking memoir of transition, history, art, and memory
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September 10, 1961
McKenzie Wark is an author who explores the frontiers of contemporary culture and theory. Her work delves into the digital age, art, and politics, offering incisive perspectives on how our understanding of the world is shaped. Through her writing, she challenges readers to reconsider the relationship between technology, art, and society. Wark provides a critical analysis that resonates in an era of constant change.
- 2023
- 2023
McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York's thriving queer rave scene, showing how raving to techno is an art and technique at which queer and trans bodies might be particularly adept, but which is for anyone who lets the beat seduce them.
- 2022
Du hast es mir sehr angetan
E-Mails 1995/96
Auf einem Trip nach Australien lernt die Autorin Kathy Acker 1995 McKenzie Wark kennen. Gerade ist Warks Buch Virtual Geography erschienen, das das Leben mit globalen Medien erforscht. Die beiden verbringen intensive Tage und Nächte miteinander, denen nach Ackers Rückkehr in die USA ein zweiwöchiger E-Mail-Austausch in Hochfrequenz folgt. Mehrmals am Tag schreiben sie sich in einen Rausch, in dem sich die elektronischen Nachrichten überkreuzen und alles zum Mittel ihres transpazifischen Werbens werden kann: Alfred Hitchcock und Stofftiere, Georges Bataille und Elvis Presley, die Simpsons, Phänomenologie, Akte X, Elfriede Jelinek und das I Ging . Die Texte surren vor Sex, Politik und Kultur, Einsichten und Albernheit, über die sich intime Nähe und schmerzhaftes Missverstehen einstellen, bevor der Austausch plötzlich abbricht. Eine Liebesgeschichte in Latenz an der Schwelle zum neuen Jahrtausend, geschrieben von und für Queers, Nerds und Buchverrückte.
- 2021
Das Kapital ist tot. Kommt jetzt etwas Schlimmeres?
Kritik einer politischen Ökonomie der Information
- 2021
McKenzie Wark combines an autobiographical account of her relationship with Kathy Acker with her transgender reading of Acker's writing to outline Acker's philosophy of embodiment and its importance for theorizing the trans experience.
- 2020
Exploring the intersection of design, politics, and environmentalism, this work examines influential thinkers and their ideas shaping a sustainable future amid the challenges of the Anthropocene. It delves into how design can address ecological crises and foster social change, highlighting innovative approaches that redefine our relationship with the environment. By analyzing contemporary practices and philosophies, the book offers insights into rebuilding a more sustainable world, making it essential reading for those interested in environmental design and policy.
- 2020
Sensoria
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Design, Politics, the Environment: a survey of the key thinkers and ideas that are rebuilding the world in the shadow of the anthropocene
- 2020
Reverse Cowgirl
- 200 pages
- 7 hours of reading
McKenzie Wark invents a new genre for another gender: not a memoir but an auto-ethnography of the opacity of the self.
- 2019
Capital Is Dead
- 208 pages
- 8 hours of reading
It's not capitalism, it's not neoliberalism-what if it's something worse?
- 2017
General Intellects
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
What has happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre, de Beauvoir or Stuart Hall of the present age? In General Intellects, McKenzie Wark introduces us to 21 thinkers who are transforming the landscape of ideas in the 21st century, covering topics such as politics, culture, psychoanalysis, the anthropocene, and the 'nonhuman'.