M Wark
Biographic Data
| ID | 8753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Wark |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Wark |
| SIGNATURE | WARK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7307-943X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dossier: From the Floor
The 12 short provocations “From the Floor” explore the analog intimacies, memories, textures, practices, vibrancies, and contingencies of the dancefloor
Miss Destiny
Xéneuphorie
McKenzie Wark est une figure de l’underground queer et de la théorie critique internationale depuis qu’elle a publié son auto-manifeste Reverse Cowboy . Elle a aussi publié de nombreux ouvrages qui introduisent au situationnisme, à la pensée écologique ou à une philosophie du jeu vidéo. On la savait donc susceptible de multiplier perversement les désirs d’écriture, mais on ne l’attendait pas pour autant à embrasser cette commande, pour une série …
Toward a Vulgar Transgender Marxism
A reading of Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues as a class both of “vulgar” Marxism and vulgar transgender writing. The novel is a learning text for the reader in both transmasculine life and militant working-class life. It takes the form of an autofiction, given that both militant workers and trans people need their life stories (auto) to be something other than confessional (fiction) as a matter of survival. The essay concludes by calling for …
Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker
Trans | Acker
The writer Kathy Acker (1947–97) is one of those few in the anglophone canon, or even near it, who opens a space for trans experiences. If trans literature, and literary studies, is to widen their ambits of aesthetic operation, one useful step would be to expand the critical study and literary experiment with such writers. The “Trans | Acker Symposium” at The New School in 2019 was a modest contribution to this project. This text introduces Acker…
L'Europe dans les strates du monde numérique
Les différentes institutions européennes sont nées pour résoudre les problèmes de la production du stade avancé du capitaliste ainsi que de son armature géopolitique. Plus qu'un régime d'accumulation, c'est d'abord une infrastructure - au sens marxiste vulgaire - qui permettait une production et une consommation industrielles en Europe et un commerce inégal avec le Sud. Mais que se passe-t-il si ce n'est même plus du capitalisme, mais un nouveau …
Reading Needham Now
What possible futures can be opened up by creatively reading an encyclopedic text not as a repository for information and historical facts but along two other lines instead: as an archive of concepts and of generative narrative detritus? This essay will reencounter Joseph Needham’s Science and Civilisation in China (SCC) according to these two readings. Reading collaboratively, the authors proceed through the early, more general volumes of SCC. M…
Et si ce n'était même plus du capitalisme, mais quelque chose d'encore bien pire
Le capital a pensé trouver le moyen d'esquiver la confrontation avec les travailleurs en se fiant au vecteur d'information. La mondialisation, la désindustrialisation et la sous-traitance permettraient de s'affranchir du pouvoir dont disposaient les travailleurs pour bloquer les flux de la production. Il est temps, toutefois, de se demander si ce qui est apparu en plus et au-dessus du mode de production capitaliste ne serait pas quelque chose de …
La proveniencia digital y la obra de arte como derivado
El arte tiene que ver con la rareza, con cosas que son únicas, especiales y que no pueden ser duplicadas. Pero las tecnologías de nuestro tiempo tienen que ver con duplicación, copias y con información que no es necesariamente especial. En principio, parecería que la forma tradicional de arte es obsoleta: Si tiene valor es solo como algo de un tiempo pasado, algo perteneciente a un estilo de vida antes de que la tecnología se hiciera cargo. Pero …
What if this is not Capitalism Any More, but Something Worse? NPS Plenary Lecture, Apsa 2015, Philadelphia, PA
Thank you for the invitation to speak to the New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association. I am not a political scientist, so I hope you will extend a benevolent tole
Undeletable Text: Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm's historiography is rooted in his biography, which begins with the struggle against fascism in Vienna and Berlin, which he experienced in his youth. He remained loyal to a popular front view of historical action throughout his life and career. His books divide into two kinds. Firstly, histories from below, in which he narrates the heroic failure of mostly premodern forms of resistance; secondly, histories of the totality, in which h…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
The Insolent Edit
July 01 2013 The Insolent Edit McKenzie Wark McKenzie Wark McKenzie Wark is the author of, among other things, two books on the Situationist International: The Beach Beneath the Street (Verso, 2011) and The Spectacle of Disintegration (Verso, 2013). He teaches at The New School. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information McKenzie Wark McKenzie Wark is the author of, among other things, two bo…
Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation
Nouvelles stratégies de la classe vectorialiste
Les nouvelles luttes de classes relatives à la propriété de l'information opposent désormais la classe des hackers, qui créent, inventent, explorent, découvrent, à la classe vectorialiste, qui, en s'étant approprié l'accès aux vecteurs de communication, dispose seule des moyens de réaliser la valeur de ces créations. Les pratiques des réseaux libres, la spontanéité du travail gratuit, l'analogie du jeu : tout cela semblait jouer contre les ancien…
A More Lovingly Made World
From a visit with his children to Makers' Fayre, in New York, the author considers the rise of maker culture and amateur labour in relation to consumption, capitalism and modernity, to provide an afterword to the collection on amateur economies
This Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit
This Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit McKenzie Wark (bio) Look, I understand that some people find the notion that we've become an oligarchy — with all that implies about class relations — disturbing. But that's the way it is. Paul Krugman I'm a worker. I go to work every weekday. I get paid. Most of that money goes to support my family. There's a little left over for fun. There's some for small acts of generosity. This makes possible a pretty good…
Spectacles of Disintegration
Guy Debord, a key member of the avant garde movement known as the Situationist International, is best known for his concept of the society of the spectacle. Conceived in the sixties, the concept had at the time two variants, the concentrated and diffuse. Debord used these in those cold war times to describe the regimes of the image in both east and west under the same rubric. Later, he conceived of the rise of the integrated spectacle. Based on h…
New New Babylon
October 01 2011 New New Babylon Ali Dur, Ali Dur ALI DUR is an architect and researcher based in Istanbul and New York. In 2008, he won the Archprix Prize. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar McKenzie Wark McKenzie Wark McKENZIE WARK is a professor of Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research and the author of A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard, 2004), Gamer Theory (Harvard, 2007), and The Beach Beneath the Str…
New Babylon ou le monde des communs: L'actualité intemporelle du projet d'architecture utopique de Constant
Dans les objets insolites de Constant ou dans l'?uvre architecturale d?Aldo Van Eyck, la modernité consiste à se situer sur la frontière entre le public et le privé, en multipliant les seuils, les espaces où on s?attarde, et surtout en grimpant en hauteur sur des pylônes pour déployer une nouvelle géographie. On peut enfin habiter le monde, devenir un homo ludens , jouissant de tous les mètres carrés de la ville et les transformant par son pouvoi…
Détournement: An Abuser's Guide
On the first occasion, the dignified ritual of power celebrating itself was disrupted by clowns. On the second occasion, security forces kept the clowns at bay for their own protection. But on the
Gamer Theory
Ever get the feeling that life’s a game with changing rules and no clear sides? Welcome to gamespace, the world in which we live. Where others argue obsessively over violence in games, Wark contends that digital computer games are our society's emergent cultural form, a utopian version of the world as it is
Hacker's Delight
[002] Nous sommes les Hackers, les tâcherons de l'abstraction, a la fois les bousilleurs et les novateurs les depeceurs, les limiers d'univers. Nous produisons de nouveaux concepts, de nouvelles perceptions, de nouvelles sensations, hackees a partir de donnees brutes. Quel que soit le code que nous hackons, serait-il langage de programmation, langage poetique, mathematique ou musique, courbes ou couleurs, nous sommes les extracteurs des nouveaux …
Information Wants to Be Free (But Is Everywhere in Chains)
Each new stage of private property creates a new axis of class conflict. If there are two axes of class conflict, two kinds of ruling class, two kinds of labor, why not a third? The new ruling class I call the vectoralist class. As private property advances from land to capital to information, property itself becomes more abstract. The property question, the basis of class, becomes the question asked everywhere, of everything. The hacker class ar…
Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Celebrities, Culture and Cyberspace: The Light on the Hill in a Postmodern World
Fashioning the future: Fashion, clothing, and the manufacturing of post-Fordist culture
A More Lovingly Made World
From a visit with his children to Makers' Fayre, in New York, the author considers the rise of maker culture and amateur labour in relation to consumption, capitalism and modernity, to provide an afterword to the collection on amateur economies
What if this is not Capitalism Any More, but Something Worse? NPS Plenary Lecture, Apsa 2015, Philadelphia, PA
Thank you for the invitation to speak to the New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association. I am not a political scientist, so I hope you will extend a benevolent tole
Nouvelles stratégies de la classe vectorialiste
Les nouvelles luttes de classes relatives à la propriété de l'information opposent désormais la classe des hackers, qui créent, inventent, explorent, découvrent, à la classe vectorialiste, qui, en s'étant approprié l'accès aux vecteurs de communication, dispose seule des moyens de réaliser la valeur de ces créations. Les pratiques des réseaux libres, la spontanéité du travail gratuit, l'analogie du jeu : tout cela semblait jouer contre les ancien…
Spectacles of Disintegration
Guy Debord, a key member of the avant garde movement known as the Situationist International, is best known for his concept of the society of the spectacle. Conceived in the sixties, the concept had at the time two variants, the concentrated and diffuse. Debord used these in those cold war times to describe the regimes of the image in both east and west under the same rubric. Later, he conceived of the rise of the integrated spectacle. Based on h…
Hackers
In the shadow of the military‐entertainment complex
(1996). In the shadow of the military‐entertainment complex. Continuum: Vol. 9, Transitions, pp. 98-117
Lost in space: Into the digital image labyrinth
(1993). Lost in space: Into the digital image labyrinth. Continuum: Vol. 7, Dependency/Space/Policy, pp. 140-160
New New Babylon
October 01 2011 New New Babylon Ali Dur, Ali Dur ALI DUR is an architect and researcher based in Istanbul and New York. In 2008, he won the Archprix Prize. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar McKenzie Wark McKenzie Wark McKENZIE WARK is a professor of Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research and the author of A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard, 2004), Gamer Theory (Harvard, 2007), and The Beach Beneath the Str…
Gam3r 7H30RY
If game theory was objective, rational, abstract; gamer theory is subjective, intuitive, particular. If game theory starts with the self-contained agent, like a prisoner in a cell, looking out at the world; gamer theory wonders how the agency of the gamer comes into being as something distinct in the first place. The rise of the computer game as an emergent cultural form calls for an approach to cultural theory that might emerge organically out o…
In the Midst of a Deleuzian Cultural Studies
(2001). In the Midst of a Deleuzian Cultural Studies. Continuum: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 117-127
Bad girls do it in public
(1998). Bad girls do it in public. Continuum: Vol. 12, Censorship and pornography, pp. 83-90
The Demidenko‐effect and the virtual republic
Fashioning the future: Fashion, clothing, and the manufacturing of post-Fordist culture
Speaking trajectories: Meaghan Morris, antipodean theory and Australian cultural studies
National identity occurs in an encounter with cultural difference when and only when that difference cannot be represented to the satisfaction of all concerned: or alternatively, the ‘Australian’ is that which irrupts as anecdotal in a theoretically rigorous exchange. (Meaghan Morris)
Lost in space: Into the digital image labyrinth
(1993). Lost in space: Into the digital image labyrinth. Continuum: Vol. 7, Dependency/Space/Policy, pp. 140-160
Third nature
Hell is truth seen too late. (G.W.F. Hegel)
Imagined Cities
In the shadow of the military‐entertainment complex
(1996). In the shadow of the military‐entertainment complex. Continuum: Vol. 9, Transitions, pp. 98-117
The Demidenko‐effect and the virtual republic
Bad girls do it in public
(1998). Bad girls do it in public. Continuum: Vol. 12, Censorship and pornography, pp. 83-90
Whatcha Doin', Marshall McLuhan
After decades of relative neglect, McLuhan is back. While his ideas on media form are receiving a long-overdue assessment, it is also worth recalling McLuhan's challenge to the form of scholarship as media. McLuhan's 'probes' were designed to produce, in the long run, precisely the kind of stimulus they are now, finally, provoking. However, McLuhan's writing is not that easily assimilable to mainstream humanities and social sciences scholarship. …
Celebrities, Culture and Cyberspace: The Light on the Hill in a Postmodern World
In the Midst of a Deleuzian Cultural Studies
In the Midst of a Deleuzian Cultural Studies
(2001). In the Midst of a Deleuzian Cultural Studies. Continuum: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 117-127
A Hacker Manifesto
A double is haunting the world-the double of abstraction, the virtual reality of information, programming or poetry, math or music, curves or colorings upon which the fortunes of states and armies, companies and communities now depend. The bold aim of this book is to make manifest the origins, purpose, and interests of the emerging class responsible for making this new world-for producing the new concepts, new perceptions, and new sensations out …
Information Wants to Be Free (But Is Everywhere in Chains)
Each new stage of private property creates a new axis of class conflict. If there are two axes of class conflict, two kinds of ruling class, two kinds of labor, why not a third? The new ruling class I call the vectoralist class. As private property advances from land to capital to information, property itself becomes more abstract. The property question, the basis of class, becomes the question asked everywhere, of everything. The hacker class ar…
Digital Allegories (on The Sims)
October 01 2006 Digital Allegories (on The Sims) McKenzie Wark McKenzie Wark Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information McKenzie Wark Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2006 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2006 Grey Room (2006) (25): 126–138. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey.2006.1.25.126 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Vie…
Gam3r 7H30RY
If game theory was objective, rational, abstract; gamer theory is subjective, intuitive, particular. If game theory starts with the self-contained agent, like a prisoner in a cell, looking out at the world; gamer theory wonders how the agency of the gamer comes into being as something distinct in the first place. The rise of the computer game as an emergent cultural form calls for an approach to cultural theory that might emerge organically out o…
Hackers
Gamer Theory
Ever get the feeling that life’s a game with changing rules and no clear sides? Welcome to gamespace, the world in which we live. Where others argue obsessively over violence in games, Wark contends that digital computer games are our society's emergent cultural form, a utopian version of the world as it is
Hacker's Delight
[002] Nous sommes les Hackers, les tâcherons de l'abstraction, a la fois les bousilleurs et les novateurs les depeceurs, les limiers d'univers. Nous produisons de nouveaux concepts, de nouvelles perceptions, de nouvelles sensations, hackees a partir de donnees brutes. Quel que soit le code que nous hackons, serait-il langage de programmation, langage poetique, mathematique ou musique, courbes ou couleurs, nous sommes les extracteurs des nouveaux …
Détournement: An Abuser's Guide
On the first occasion, the dignified ritual of power celebrating itself was disrupted by clowns. On the second occasion, security forces kept the clowns at bay for their own protection. But on the
New Babylon ou le monde des communs: L'actualité intemporelle du projet d'architecture utopique de Constant
Dans les objets insolites de Constant ou dans l'?uvre architecturale d?Aldo Van Eyck, la modernité consiste à se situer sur la frontière entre le public et le privé, en multipliant les seuils, les espaces où on s?attarde, et surtout en grimpant en hauteur sur des pylônes pour déployer une nouvelle géographie. On peut enfin habiter le monde, devenir un homo ludens , jouissant de tous les mètres carrés de la ville et les transformant par son pouvoi…
This Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit
This Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit McKenzie Wark (bio) Look, I understand that some people find the notion that we've become an oligarchy — with all that implies about class relations — disturbing. But that's the way it is. Paul Krugman I'm a worker. I go to work every weekday. I get paid. Most of that money goes to support my family. There's a little left over for fun. There's some for small acts of generosity. This makes possible a pretty good…
Spectacles of Disintegration
Guy Debord, a key member of the avant garde movement known as the Situationist International, is best known for his concept of the society of the spectacle. Conceived in the sixties, the concept had at the time two variants, the concentrated and diffuse. Debord used these in those cold war times to describe the regimes of the image in both east and west under the same rubric. Later, he conceived of the rise of the integrated spectacle. Based on h…
New New Babylon
October 01 2011 New New Babylon Ali Dur, Ali Dur ALI DUR is an architect and researcher based in Istanbul and New York. In 2008, he won the Archprix Prize. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar McKenzie Wark McKenzie Wark McKENZIE WARK is a professor of Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research and the author of A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard, 2004), Gamer Theory (Harvard, 2007), and The Beach Beneath the Str…
The Insolent Edit
July 01 2013 The Insolent Edit McKenzie Wark McKenzie Wark McKenzie Wark is the author of, among other things, two books on the Situationist International: The Beach Beneath the Street (Verso, 2011) and The Spectacle of Disintegration (Verso, 2013). He teaches at The New School. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information McKenzie Wark McKenzie Wark is the author of, among other things, two bo…
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