McKenzie Wark

McKenzie Wark (* 1961 in Newcastle ) is an Australian-born writer, theorist and professor of media and cultural studies at the Eugene Lang College of New School for Social Research in New York City.

Life

McKenzie Wark graduated from Macquarie University with a bachelor's degree in 1985 and a master's degree from the University of Technology in Sydney in 1990 . In 1998 she received her PhD in Communications from Murdoch University, Australia .

Wark has lived in the USA since 2000 and has been professor of media and cultural studies at Eugene Lang College of the New School for Social Research since 2003 .

In 2018 , Wark came out as a trans woman and initially used gender-neutral pronouns (they / them) , but from 2019 onwards, female pronouns (she / her) .

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Together with media theorists Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker, she published Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation in 2013 . In the three essays the authors develop an understanding of media and mediation that sees the impossibility or prevention of communication itself as an integral part of communication and questions the effectiveness of media theory.

In the 2020 book Reverse Cowgirl , Wark describes the history of their sexual and social identities . The book has also been described as the “auto-ethnography of the self”.

Wark was a multiple contributor to transmediale and held an anthropocene lecture at the House of World Cultures in Berlin in 2017 .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Reverse Cowgirl , Semiotext (e), 2020, ISBN 9781635901184 .
• Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? , London, Verso, 2019, ISBN 9781788735308 .
• General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty First Century , London, Verso, 2017, ISBN 9781786631909 .
• Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene , London, Verso, 2016, ISBN 9781784784089 .
  • Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene , Berlin, Matthes & Seitz , ISBN 9783957573957 .
• The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International , London, Verso, 2015, ISBN 9781781688380 .
• The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century , London, Verso, 2013, ISBN 9781844679577 .
• Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation (together with Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker ), University of Chicago Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0226925226 .
• Gamer Theory , Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780674025196 .
• A Hacker Manifesto , Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2004, ISBN 9780674015432 .
• Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events , Indiana University Press, 1994, ISBN 9780253208941 .

items

• "Reality Cabaret: On Juliana Huxtable", e-flux, # 107, March 2020.
• "Femme as in Fuck You", e-flux , # 102, September 2019.
• "A Billion Black Anthropocenes", Verso Blog , February 1, 2019.
• "Kathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning," The Brooklyn Rail , February 2019.
• "Wild Gone Girls", e-flux , # 93, September 2018.
• "My Collectible Ass", e-flux , # 85, October 2017.
• "On Nick Land", Verso Blog , June 20, 2017.
• "From Architecture to Kainotecture", e-flux Architecture , April 2017.
• "Digital Provenance and the Artwork as Derivative", e-flux , # 77, November 2016.

Web links

• Profile on the New School for social research page

Individual evidence

1. ^ Profile on the New School for Social Research website. Retrieved May 24, 2020 . 
2. ^ Profile: Curriculum Vitae. In: academia.edu. 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020 . 
3. ^ McKenzie Wark: chica marx @mckenziewark. In: Twitter . Retrieved on July 11, 2020 (English): “Trans: she / her. Opinions my own. Personal account. […] Since February 2009 on Twitter […] 18,468 followers ”  .
4. ^ Geert Lovink: Hermes on the Hudson: Notes on Media Theory after Snowden. In: e-flux.com. April 2014, accessed on July 11, 2020 . 
5. ^ Juliet Jacques: Interviews: McKenzie Wark on the Future of Trans Literature. In: Frieze. April 6, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020 . 
6. ^ Video from House of World Cultures (HKW): Anthropocene Lecture: McKenzie Wark (English). In: HKW.de/mediathek. May 18, 2018, accessed on July 11, 2020 (English, 1:44:47 minutes; info page ).