![]() ![]() Class, she argued, is now being organized through relationships with intellectual property, divvying up “hackers” who produce that intellectual property and the “vectoralists” who eventually own it. In 2004, she published her breakout text A Hacker Manifesto which laid out an intimation of a new world order. These modifiers signal to Wark that the word “capitalism” itself no longer describes our current condition. ![]() It is not capitalism we are surviving but neoliberal capitalism, late capitalism, finance capitalism, bio-political capitalism or some other variation. Wildly prolific, her reach is long, but Wark has been constructing a body of work around something truly novel for decades now: the death of capitalism unto something else.Īs a writer, Wark has expressed frustration with the modifiers that we’ve come to see the world through. Following her immigration to the United States, she wrote some of her most significant works, many of which revolve around communism, media, and cultural theory, along with texts on the Situationists International and her auto-ethnography Reverse Cowgirl (2020), which chronicles her years attempting to be gay, and then straight, before transitioning. ![]() A public intellectual in her home country of Australia, she was schooled in Marxism by the working class miners she grew up around. McKenzie Wark is so in touch with the present that her work often comes off as futuristic. ![]()
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