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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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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1h

It is a pretty good index of whether you’re hitting.

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 1h

my """favorite""" sort of aspiring fascist """intellectual""" is the sort of dork who starts their own publishing house, talks about how they're on the cutting edge of thought as the left continues to decay and yet i can't even find their books on libgen

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 3h

I'm an old fashioned Hollywood queen at heart.

Reposted by McKenzie Wark, Nikki Fairchild

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 3h

A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons):

1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...

It Starts With a Whisper

A celebration of the strength, wisdom, beauty and humour of Native women; of Native culture and people, surviving and thriving.

vucavu.com

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 4h

Won't know til my author copies arrive. I've been so lucky with foreign editions. Some beautiful books from cool small presses.

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 4h

contact.surface just did RAVING too: contact-surface.com/books/raving

레이빙 — 접촉면

테크노 클럽에서의 레이빙 경험을 다룬 자기이론이자 오토픽션. 미디어 이론, 비판 이론, 상황주의자 인터내셔널에 관한 책으로 널리 알려진 트랜스섹슈얼 작가 매켄지 워크가 쓴 테크노 레이브에 관한 이야기. 트랜스섹슈얼인 저자는 몸과 정신의 해리를 경험하고 테크노 클럽에서도 이를 경험한다. 테크노 음악에 몰두하면서 겪는 육체와 정신의 몇 가지 상태를 개념화하고 ...

contact-surface.com

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 4h

My book THE BEACH BENEATH THE STREET now in Korean, from ma-ter-ial. With this fabulous cover. ma-te-ri-al.online/product/thro...

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 5h

60s *is* old, hun. Stop coming up with arguments for raising the retirement age.

Opinion | I’m 62. Stop Telling Me I’m Old.

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 6h

Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.

Two young girls sit by a New York window as a giant Snoopy float passes by in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, 1988.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Daniel W. Drezner, Melanie C. Green , and 8 more Anna O. Law, Daniel W. Drezner, Melanie C. Green, Aaron Sojourner, McKenzie Wark, Lesley Bartlett, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Mary L. Dudziak, Mark Rice, Susan Strasser, Simon Lester

Jessica Cale @dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social · 23h

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

www.nytimes.com

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d

FWIW I think LP books, firstly, get the attention of *our* ppl. Very important, that. But secondly, sometimes get the attention of the cis lit world which doesn't really have all that many other organic literacy cultures around to draw from.

Reposted by McKenzie Wark, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

🍁🦃 momo (turkily good bad) 🦃🍁 @momojes.bsky.social · 1d

happy "Bolsonaro criminalmente" to all who observe

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d

Just ridiculous to me that Hugh Ryan, of all ppl, is not a writer some press is treasuring and developing, book by book.

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d

There’s limitations to publishing with independents but there’s a lot of advantages too.

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d

I had stable working relationships at Verso from 2010-2023 across 7 titles. At Semiotexte since 2015 for 2.

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe the hardest thing about being a 3x orphaned author (meaning all three of my books were acquired by editors who left the business before they could edit them) is that it means constantly starting over. The folks who read my books are wonderful! But in the industry, I have no long term supports

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d

2312 is my favorite of Stan’s books.

Reposted by Susan Young, McKenzie Wark

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

Daniel Rough @haggistamer.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly I fucking loathe the whole idea of "EdTech"

Pushers of technology into education couldn't give a flying fuck about students, educators, education itself, or any of their other so-called "use cases".

They care ONLY about profits. I really wish our execs could perceive this blinding light 😡

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.

Reposted by Ruha Benjamin, David M. Schultz, McKenzie Wark , and 2 more Ruha Benjamin, David M. Schultz, McKenzie Wark, Jelena Subotić, Nathan P. Kalmoe

cod:mw:gerd @johnperich.com · 1d

To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).

https://www.ft.com/content/23e54a28-6f63-4533-ab96-3756d9c88bad

To check OpenAI ability to pay, HSBC’s team first had to build a model to forecast revenues.

Its starting point is to put user numbers on an S-curve that by 2030 reaches 3bn, “equivalent to 44 per cent of the world’s adult population” ex China. That’s versus an estimated total user base last month of approximately 800mn

https://www.ft.com/content/23e54a28-6f63-4533-ab96-3756d9c88bad

LLM subscriptions will become “as ubiquitous and useful as Microsoft 365”, HSBC says. It models that by 2030, 10 per cent of OpenAI users will be paying customers, versus an estimated 5 per cent currently.

The team also assumes LLM companies will capture 2 per cent of the digital advertising market in revenue, from slightly more than zero currently.

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide, McKenzie Wark

Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 2d

Vulgar Marxism implies a Clean Edit Marxism, a Kidz Bop Marxism, a Marxism (Taylor's version)

(all flavors of Marxism are, according to managers, NSFW)

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 2d

I have almost certainly lost more sales to people's bad taste than to piracy over the years lol

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 2d

“My ‘I am not a wife beater’ shirt seems to provoke more questions than it answers”

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 2d

“Sometimes, sitting before a blank page, I get a rush just thinking, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. Why is it that everything I write fails to capture the range of what is possible? I think, We could write anything and yet we don’t.”
– Jackie Wang, Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun

Reposted by Jamie Morgan, Jacob Montgomery, Daniel W. Drezner , and 6 more Jamie Morgan, Jacob Montgomery, Daniel W. Drezner, Alan Richardson, McKenzie Wark, James Goodwin, Zen Faulkes, Julie Novkov, Susan D. Amussen

Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 2d

If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

The evolution of the BBC article on Graham Linehan's conviction and how it describes the trans victim of this crime is beyond atrocious. They actively went out of their way to dehumanize the victim here. They removed all pronouns for her and gendered honorifics such as "Ms."

Screenshot of a news article discussing Graham Linehan’s court case. The text states that Linehan was cleared of harassing a trans activist but convicted of damaging her phone. It describes how he knocked a teenage trans woman’s phone from her hand, and includes a highlighted sentence saying: “Ms Brooks, who was 18 at the time, is a trans woman who was born a biological male.”

Screenshot of another section of the same article. It covers the judge’s comments about Linehan’s social media posts not meeting the legal definition of harassment. A highlighted portion reads: “a biological male who identifies as a woman,” referring to the complainant.

Screenshot of an additional section of the article. It summarizes the accusations, including Linehan calling the complainant derogatory names online. A highlighted section states: “Brooks, who was born a biological male but identifies as a woman.”

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Colin F. Camerer, Steve Peers , and 6 more Anne Applebaum, Colin F. Camerer, Steve Peers, Fabián Muniesa, Kevin Carey, R. M. Wilson, McKenzie Wark, Brooke Harrington, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 2d

when its definitely not a hostage situation

Reposted by Jason Mittell, Tom Shakespeare, Russell T. McCutcheon , and 11 more Jason Mittell, Tom Shakespeare, Russell T. McCutcheon, David W. Kerstetter, Anders Nilsson, B. R. Mitchell, McKenzie Wark, Stephen Ryan, James Goodwin, Alfie Kohn, David Bartram, Roland Pierik, Simon Lester, David R. Shumway

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2d

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d

Same, girl. I treat the free pdfs as advertising. Grateful to ppl who see the advertising and go on to buy the books. Print books in particular are much nicer things to have and unlike reading on a device—don't spy on you.

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