Faculty

McKenzie Wark

Professor of Culture and Media

Email
warkk@newschool.edu

Office Location
B - Eugene Lang College Building - 65 West 11th Street

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“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”

Recent Publications

• Capital is Dead, Verso Books, 2019
• General Intellects: 21 Thinkers for the 21st Century, Verso Books, 2017
• Molecular Red: Theory of the Anthropocene, Verso, 2015
• The Spectacle of Disintegration, Verso Books, 2013
• Telesthesia: Communication, Culture & Class, Polity Press, 2012
• The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Like and Glorious Times of the Situationist International, Verso Books, 2011
• Gamer Theory, Harvard University Press, 2007
• A Hacker Manifesto, Harvard University Press, 2004
• Dispositions, Salt Publications, Cambridge, 2002
• Speed Factory, (co-author) Fremantle Art Centre Press, Fremantle, 2000
• Celebrities, Culture and Cyberspace, Pluto Press, Sydney, 1998
• The Virtual Republic, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997
• Virtual Geography, Indiana University Press, 1994

Research Interests

Media theory, new media, critical theory, cinema, music, visual art.

Awards And Honors

• Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art

Current Courses

Independent Senior Project

Independent Study

Independent Study (Fall 2019)

Kathy Acker (Fall 2019)

Queer & Trans Cinema

Trans | Aesthetics

Trans Media (Fall 2019)

Trans Theory as Gender Theory