What makes globalization even possible in the first place? One answer would be that it requires the regularization of some kind of media and communication infrastructure. When you have that, you might get globalized economic trade within some political or… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
“In Japan itself it seemed as if theory had been absorbed the same way Japanese media culture absorbed everything else—by turning it into a… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
You can trace a through-line from the eighties to the present, and in retrospect Trump was always one of the minor avatars of a… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
“The preferred worlds to simulate were either sci-fi or Edo-period Japan, as if the two breaks of the Meiji restoration (1868) and the occupation… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to take media… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
Language is always ambivalent. Its forms mutate and connect in unexpected ways. It's hard to instrumentalize language. But I think it's better to explore… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
“Evangelion is not so much an original as itself already a copy of popular anime elements, “an aggregate of information without a narrative” or… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
What makes globalization even possible in the first place? One answer would be that it requires the regularization of some kind of media and… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
Trump appears to some as too simulated, too much a spectacle. But all authorized politics is spectacle. He just does it in a different… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
