McKenzie Wark

McKenzie (Ken) Wark (1961) is Professor of Culture and Media in Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research. His research interests are media theory, new media, critical theory, cinema, music, and visual art.

Publications

Books

• Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. [1]
• The Virtual Republic: Australia's Culture Wars of the 1990s, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1997. [2]
• Celebrities, Culture and Cyberspace, Sydney: Pluto Press Australia, 1999.
• editor, with Josephine Bosma, et al., Read Me! ASCII Culture & The Revenge of Knowledge, New York: Autonomedia, 1999, 556 pp.
• Dispositions, Cambridge: Salt, 2002.
• with Bernard Cohen, John Kinsella and Terri-Ann White, Speed Factory, Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2002.
• A Hacker Manifesto, Harvard University Press, 2004, 208 pp. [3]
  • Hakerski manifest, trans. Tomislav Medak, 2006. (Croatian)
  • Manifiesto hacker. Trans. of a shorter essay. (Spanish)
• Gam3r 7h3ory, Institute for the Future of the Book, 2006ff.
• Gamer Theory, Harvard University Press, 2007, ARG.
• 50 Years of Recuperation: The Situationist International 1957-2007, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008. [4]
• The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International, Verso, 2011. [5]
• Telesthesia: Communication, Culture and Class, Polity, 2012.
• The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century, Verso, 2013.
  • Spektakl dezintegracji. Sytuacjonistyczne drogi wyjścia z XX wieku, trans. Katarzyna Makaruk, Warsaw: Fundacja Bęc Zmiana, 2014. [6] (Polish)
• with Rachel Law, W.A.N.T: Weaponized Adorables Negotiation Tactics, 2013, 80 pp.
• with Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker, Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation, University of Chicago Press, 2013.
• Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene, Verso, 2015, 304 pp. [7]

Articles

• Ray Edgar, Ashley Crawford (eds.), Transit Lounge, Melbourne: Fine Art Publishing, 1998. Includes several of Wark’s essays.
• "Blue Ruin: Totality and Acceleration", Rhizome, 10 Mar 2014.
• Texts at PublicSeminar.org, 2013-.
• Texts at Verso blog, 2011-.
• More

Interviews

• "Durable Futures and Intimate Encounters. McKenzie Wark with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve", The Brooklyn Rail, 8 Sep 2015. (English)

Links

• Profile at New School
• Wark at Academia.edu
• Wark at Wikipedia