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McKenzie Wark

McKenzie Wark is the author of a series of connected autofictional books including Reverse Cowgirl, Philosophy for Spiders, Raving and Love and Money, Sex and Death. She is also known for a series of books of 21st century critical theory, including A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory and Capital is Dead. Originally from Newcastle NSW, she emigrated to New York City in 2000. She is professor of culture and media at The New School and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She lives in Brooklyn.

Introduction to McKenzie Wark’s Dispositions 26

Posted on April 24, 2026 by McKenzie Wark

Every spaceless space in Dispositions 26 is disposed to be thick with all things, even inequities being equal. In it, Wark is thick with transsexual. She is thick with jobless. She has eyes for the uncanny and an uncanny way of showing the uncanny. And yes, she is McKenzie Wark on dérive and thick with a kind of wisdom about why the enemy is winning and the dérive soon to be no more than an Instagram moment.

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Kathy Acker and The Viewing Room

Posted on February 1, 2019 by McKenzie Wark

The last time I saw Kathy Acker was in London, in July 1997. I wasn’t sure how she felt about me at that point. I had failed to drop everything to be with her in San Francisco the year before, and I had failed to make a job materialise that would have brought her to Sydney, as she wanted.

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