McKenzie Wark

After a successful career, a twenty-year marriage, and raising two kids, McKenzie Wark experiences an extreme midlife change: coming out as a trans woman. Changing both social role and bodily form recasts her whole relation to the world and reveals it to her as something strange and different. Her past life becomes a stranger to her, a past she can...

The Situationist International, who came to the fore during the Paris tumults of 1968, were revolutionary thinkers who continue to influence movements and philosophy into the twenty-first century. Mostly known for Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle as well as other key texts, the group was in fact hugely diverse and radical. In Leaving the Twentieth Century McKenzie Wark...

Writing on Raving is the definitive mix of voices from the Brooklyn underground rave scene and beyond, providing fresh language for the shared and infinitely varied experience of dancing through the night until the morning. New York rave culture is having a moment. The music, mostly, is techno, certain flavours of which became the soundtrack to a dancefloor culture that...

A double is haunting the world—the double of abstraction, the virtual reality of information, programming or poetry, math or music, curves or colourings 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...

Don't we just love Guy Debord and those Situationists wandering Paris in the 1960s, mapless, unguided by more than drift, a theory of psychogeography, and minds open to the politics of spaces, and calling it all derive: a lovely word if ever there was a lovely word; a missile word aimed at flaneur; a word, an apercu opening onto the...