I’m not a content creator,
— chica marx (@mckenziewark) July 18, 2020
I’m a form destroyer. #modernism
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The thing about having a day job is that it takes up the whole fucking day.
— chica marx (@mckenziewark) November 20, 2019
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I want to see a movie where the aliens come not to invade or teach us but to persuade us to collaborate on their performance art.
— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) June 28, 2019
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The down side of being an academic gadfly who made no major contribution to any one field, just minor ones to several, is that u then get asked to do stuff for every single one of them.
— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) June 20, 2019
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Its as if the whole planet has dysphoria.
— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) June 6, 2019
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Every crashed Tesla is a sequel to Ballard’s Crash & Cronebnerg’s Crash that automatically recorded itself. They are works of art & literature & should all be preserved for posterity, as well as becoming the subject for PhDs @PenguinBooks Classics and @Criterion boxed editions. https://t.co/NzNq3GP6vK
— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) March 30, 2019
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I generally mistrust those writers who have much of a strident note. If you can’t wear your commitments lightly you haven’t really lived them.
— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) March 12, 2019
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[cw: media theory]
— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) February 27, 2019
I’m thinking you can make a greimas square of figures for post-broadcast infrastructure:
network = horizontal and connected
protocol = horizontal and disjunctive
the stack = vertical and connective
the vector = vertical and disjunctive.
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One can neither work with, nor dispense with, the category of ‘nature.’
— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) January 24, 2019
The best one has are conceptual tactics.
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Move slow and fix things.
— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) October 28, 2018
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Nate Persily on how to fix political discourse on the internet. pic.twitter.com/bMN7jPPB2d
— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) October 19, 2018
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“When the world ends, there’ll be no more air. That’s why it’s important to pollute the air now. Before it’s too late.”#KathyAcker on commodified reason.
— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) July 14, 2018
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