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, PDF, IA, ARG.

• The Virtual Republic: Australia's Culture Wars of the 1990s, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1997, ARG. [1]

• 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, IA, ARG. [2]

• with Bernard Cohen, John Kinsella and Terri-Ann White, Speedfactory, Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2002, 151 pp. [3]

• A Hacker Manifesto, Harvard University Press, 2004, 208 pp. [4]
  • Un manifesto hacker: lavoratori immateriali di tutto il mondo unitevi!, trans. Marco Deseriis, Milan: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, 2005, 178 pp. (Italian)
  • Hacker-Manifest, trans. Dietmar Zimmer, Munich: C.H. Beck, 2005, [236] pp. (German)
  • Hakkā sengen, trans. Tomoyuki Kaneta, Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2005, 248 pp. (Japanese)
  • Un manifeste hacker, trans. Club Post-1984 Mary Shelley & Cie Hacker band, Paris: Ubiprodedis/Criticalsecret, 2006, 389+[24] pp. (French)
  • Ena maniphesto tōn chaker, trans. Nektarios Kalaitzēs, Athens: Scripta, 2006, 300 pp. (Greek)
  • Hakerski manifest, trans. Tomislav Medak, 2006. (Croatian)
  • Un manifiesto hacker, trans. Laura Manero, Barcelona: Alpha Decay, 2006, 204 pp. (Spanish)
  • Bir hacker manifestosu, trans. Merve Darende, Istanbul: Altıkırkbeş, 2008, 234 pp. (Turkish)
  • Hekerski manifest, trans. Aleksandra Rekar, afterw. Janez Strehovec, Ljubljana: Maska, 2008, 275 pp. (Slovenian)
  • Hackerkiáltvány, trans. Nagy Mónika Zsuzsanna, Budapest: Noran Libro, 2010, 213 pp. (Hungarian)
  • Manifiesto hacker, n.d. 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. [5]

• The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International, London: Verso, 2011. [6]

• Telesthesia: Communication, Culture and Class, Polity, 2012. Chs 9, 13, 16, 19.

• The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century, London: Verso, 2013.
  • Spektakl dezintegracji. Sytuacjonistyczne drogi wyjścia z XX wieku, trans. Katarzyna Makaruk, Warsaw: Fundacja Bęc Zmiana, 2014, 313 pp. [7] (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.

• with Kathy Acker, I'm Very Into You. Correspondence 1995–1996, ed. & intro. Matias Viegener, afterw. John Kinsella, Semiotext(e), 2015, 160 pp. [8]

• Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene, London: Verso, 2015, xxiv+280 pp.
  • Molekulares Rot. Theorie für das Anthropozän, trans. Dirk Höfer, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2017, 300 pp. [9] (German)

• editor, Molecular Red Reader, London: Verso, 2015, 85 pp.

• General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty First Century, London: Verso, 2017, viii+325 pp.

Essays, reviews

• 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.
• "Creators of the World Unite", Los Angeles Review of Books, 25 Nov 2015; repr. in LARB: The Digital Revolution: Debating the Promise and Perils of the Internet, Automation, and Algorithmic Lives in the Last Years of the Obama Administration, 2017, pp 63-68. Review of Cory Doctorow's Information Doesn’t Want to be Free.
• "Undeletable Text: Eric Hobsbawm", boundary 2 43:2, 2016, pp 125-140.
• "Friction", Public Seminar, 5 Sep 2016. On Anna Tsing.
• "Africa contra Hegel", Public Seminar, 24 Sep 2016. On Achille Mbembe.
• "Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: In and Against the Human", Verso Blog, 12 Jun 2017.
• "On Nick Land", Verso Blog, 20 Jun 2017.
• "Our Aesthetics", Verso Blog, 27 Jun 2017. On Sianne Ngui.

more

• Texts on PublicSeminar.org, 2013ff.
• Texts on Verso Blog, 2011ff.
• More on Academia.edu

Interviews

• "A Functional Form Has Its Own Beauty: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson", Los Angeles Review of Books, 1 Sep 2013.
• "#3 Debord Action Figure. Entretien réalisé par Ewen Chardronnet autour du travail de McKenzie Wark", in Artisans numériques, ed. Ewen Chardronnet, Orléans: HYX, 2014, pp 177-185. (French)
• "Durable Futures and Intimate Encounters. McKenzie Wark with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve", The Brooklyn Rail, 8 Sep 2015.
• with Petar Jandrić, "New Knowledge for a New Planet: Critical Pedagogy for the Anthropocene", Open Review of Educational Research 3:1 (2016), pp 148-178. [10]
• Alexander R. Galloway, "An Interview with McKenzie Wark", boundary2, 7 Apr 2017.
• Richard Marshall, "The Hacker", 3:AM Magazine, 10 Jun 2017.

Links

• Profile at New School
• Wark at Academia.edu
• Anthropocene Lecture at HKW, Berlin, May 2017.
• Wark at Wikipedia