McKenzie Wark is so in touch with the present that her work often comes off as futuristic. A public intellectual in her home country of Australia, she was schooled in Marxism by the working class miners she grew up around. 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. 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.
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