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Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
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McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer and scholar. Wark is known for her writings on media theory, critical theory, new media, and the Situationist International. Her best known works are A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory. She is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at The New School. .. more

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 3h

I think, if you’ve been around long enough*, at this point you have an obligation to (i) know that the struggles are longer than any event or war, and (ii) spread messages that bias to resilience and long-term engagement and strength

*anyone over Bluesky’s Age

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

“The president also complained that the person’s horrified screams had made it difficult for him to watch the video of the killing on television.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Reposted by Robb Willer, Scott L. Greer, Efrén O. Pérez , and 4 more Robb Willer, Scott L. Greer, Efrén O. Pérez, Trevon D. Logan, McKenzie Wark, Manuel Puppis, David Darmofal

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Philip Nel, McKenzie Wark

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.

Reposted by Colin F. Camerer, Will Jennings, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 8 more Colin F. Camerer, Will Jennings, Rosemary A. Joyce, Daniel W. Drezner, David R. Miller, Silvia Secchi, McKenzie Wark, Anne Norton, Mary Jane Curry, Timothy D. McBride, David Darmofal

Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 1d

Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations! 🖤

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Museum Wanderer @museum-wanderer.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t (and most likely won’t) watch the recently released video but I swear I can hear that “fucking bitch” in my head clear as day. The snarling hate and disgust. Every woman has heard it.

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 1d

The democratic collapse of my country is making it hard to focus on the collapse of my profession

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d

Saw it as a teenager and it blew my tiny mind

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2d

I am only now catching up with the theory that Trump's fixation on Greenland is because of its enormous size on Mercator Projection maps

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

Authors, journalists, media personalities and a sponsor are boycotting the Adelaide festival after it dumped Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah from its annual Writers’ Week lineup.

Read the full story. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 2d

“Fuck ICE!” chants & a brass band performing “Which side are you on?” as hundreds march in Manhattan, NYC against ICE and in solidarity with Minneapolis.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 2d

An immoral man who says he can only be constrained by his own morality.

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d

Reading Hannah Crafts' The Bondwoman's Narrative as autofiction would I think be really generative. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bon...

The Bondwoman's Narrative - Wikipedia

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d

If we’ve learned one thing about America, it’s that there is no deep state. Only the shallow state.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2d

tried a thing this morning where i read a book instead of getting on my phone while i had coffee before work, highly recommend

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Gülkan Noîr @noirthequeeng.bsky.social · 2d

Dün, arkadaşım Özlem Güçlü ile birlikte @mckenziewark.bsky.social'ın Kathy Acker'dan ilhamla yazdığı Örümcekler İçin Felsefe [Philosophy For Spiders] üzerine sohbet ettik. Benlik yapımı, cis nazarı, yazmak, disfori/efori, akış halinde deneylerle, müzakerelerle örülen bir punk felsefesi...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant

“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods

404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...

www.404media.co

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt

Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.

www.mprnews.org

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 3d

John is more conceptually rich. Mark has low key pagan residues I rather like.

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 3d

The murder of Renee Nicole Good also demonstrates another obvious and terrible truth that the Movement for Black Lives have tried to tell America about state violence: there's never been a such thing as a perfect victim

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Paul Rabin @rabinpw.bsky.social · 3d

NYC stands with Minneapolis AGAINST ICE!

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 3d

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3d

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there

Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?