McKenzie Wark



Introduction to McKenzie Wark’s Dispositions 26

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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On the Holding of Spaces for Essaying Into

It’s a putting oneself into a space of deliberate uncertainty. Stepping into the unknown. A practicing in that space. Training.

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Kathy Acker and The Viewing Room

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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