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McKenzie Wark

(She/Her)
  • Professor of Media and Culture, The New School, Freelance
New York
As seen in: MSN, Yahoo Life, The Guardian, TIME, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News, Soundcloud, Stanford University, The MIT Press, Yahoo Sports Canada and
Covers:  Writing about media, culture, politics, sexuality, currently writing mostly about the work of transgender writers and artists.
Theory icon. Bad Marxist. Transsexual menace. Media & Culture Prof, “Hudson University,” NYC. Latest book: LOVE AND MONEY, SEX AND DEATH (Verso).

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McKenzie Wark’s Biography

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Writer of articles, essays, interviews, books with 40 years experience. Recent books include REVERSE COWGIRL (Semiotexte), CAPITAL IS DEAD (Verso), RAVING (Duke 2023) and LOVE AND MONEY, SEX AND DEATH (Verso, 2023).

McKenzie Wark’s Journalist Portfolio

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Hermaphroditus Live: On Andrea Illés

Hermaphroditus Live: On Andrea Illés

I’m watching the livestream of Andrea Illés' Dreem2 as I write this. It's daytime here, night in her world. T…

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Nayland Blake's Conceptually Horny Work

Nayland Blake's Conceptually Horny Work

Two things stick out for me about Nayland Blake’s work. The first is that while there’s a kind of cerebral, c…

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Artist as DJ

Artist as DJ

Glide among circuit gays and dolls with McKenzie Wark, swaying to Juliana Huxtable, as she urges you to put d…

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Interview with Haydn Keenan, director of Going Down

Interview with Haydn Keenan, director of Going Down

I had not seen Haydn Keenan’s Going Down (1982) since the early 1980s, and I was charmed and surprised by how…

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Marsha, by Tourmaline, review

Marsha, by Tourmaline, review

This book is a perfect meeting of author and subject. The artist and writer Tourmaline has, for many years, b…

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"Enemy Feminisms by Sophie Lewis

"Enemy Feminisms by Sophie Lewis

Like any broad social movement, feminism contains many currents. You can take one of two approaches to that. …

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Articles

Ren Light Pan Dramatizes the Dilemma of the Trans Artist.

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By McKenzie Wark
| Art in America Verified
The first thing I see upon enteringRen Light Pan’s tiny New York studio is a large canvas with a monochrome image of Sleeping Hermaphroditus. It’s the one that’s in the Louvre: a life-size marble Roman copy of an ancient Greek bronze from the 2nd century C.E. Pan shows me a series of smaller images on canvas, variations on this classical figure by other artists.
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Raving

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By McKenzie Wark
| databazeknih.cz
McKenzie Wark ve své knize Raving ukazuje intimní i kolektivní stránky života newyorské trans a queer rave scény. Pro Wark není rave jen tanec nebo klubová záležitost: mnohem víc jde o sebevyjádření, performativní rituál, doslova sdílený tělesný proces směřující ke katarzi. Je také ale manifestem, společnou praxí a společným odporem proti tlaku konzumu a patriarchálních struktur.
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Open Call: Repair Electronics Faire

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By Dri Chiu Tattersfield, Jeffrey Warren, McKenzie Wark, Jasmine Clark
| Rhizome
Call for Proposals: Repair Electronics Faire Temple University Libraries Loretta C Duckworth Digital Scholars Studio, in collaboration with the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Boyer College, and the Center for Humanities invite submissions for organizations to table, individual or group paper presentations, workshops, performances, and artworks for the Repair Electronics Faire on April 9 and 10, 2026.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Staff writer and editor at ON THE STREET, a free weekly music paper, Sydney, 1985

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, I go waaaay back.

How is social media changing news?

I get paid to answer that one.

Awards

Thoma Prize

2019 - Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art

The Arts Writing Awards provide unrestricted, merit-based funding in support of writing that advances research, scholarship, and dialogue in digital art. These awards are the first of their kind to devote substantial funding to writing about digital art, including scholarship, history, criticism, and theory.

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