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Contributor
McKenzie Wark

McKenzie Wark is the author of A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard, 2004), Gamer Theory (Harvard, 2007), Molecular Red (Verso, 2015) and various other things. Her newest book Raving is set to be published March 14 2023. Wark teaches at The New School in New York, USA.

Opinion
The Politics of Cuteness

McKenzie Wark on trans-feminine aesthetics and the revolutionary potential of prettiness

BY McKenzie Wark |
Opinion
Raving: Second Chances on the Dancefloor

McKenzie Wark shares how techno made her feel at home in her body

BY McKenzie Wark |
Opinion
Danny Boyle’s Disneyfication of the Sex Pistols

The director’s latest TV series, Pistol, hovers uncomfortably between the pretense of being an art form and desperately trying to hold our attention

BY McKenzie Wark |
Film , Opinion
Unpacking the Hidden Meanings in The Matrix Resurrections

From the red/blue pill symbolism to the trans allegory, McKenzie Wark muses on the real-life narratives surrounding the simulated world of The Matrix

BY McKenzie Wark |
Opinion
‘Her Love Was True’: Tributes to bell hooks (1952–2021)

Rhea Dillon, Harmony Holiday, Legacy Russell, Bolanle Tajudeen and McKenzie Wark honour the influential US author and thinker

BY Rhea Dillon, Harmony Holiday, Legacy Russell, Bolanle Tajudeen AND McKenzie Wark |
Profiles
How Philosopher Paul Virilio (1932–2018) Spoke to an Age of Acceleration and Total War

McKenzie Wark pays tribute to the French cultural theorist, who called our era one of ‘dromocracy’: the reign of speed

BY McKenzie Wark |