McKenzie Wark

We no longer have roots, we have aerials.

— McKenzie Wark

“In Japan itself it seemed as if theory had been absorbed the same way Japanese media culture absorbed everything else—by turning it…

— McKenzie Wark

You can trace a through-line from the eighties to the present, and in retrospect Trump was always one of the minor avatars…

— McKenzie Wark

“The preferred worlds to simulate were either sci-fi or Edo-period Japan, as if the two breaks of the Meiji restoration (1868) and…

— McKenzie Wark

I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to…

— McKenzie Wark

Language is always ambivalent. Its forms mutate and connect in unexpected ways. It's hard to instrumentalize language. But I think it's better…

— McKenzie Wark

“Everything is digital and yet the digital is as nothing.”

— McKenzie Wark

“Evangelion is not so much an original as itself already a copy of popular anime elements, “an aggregate of information without a…

— McKenzie Wark

What makes globalization even possible in the first place? One answer would be that it requires the regularization of some kind of…

— McKenzie Wark

Trump appears to some as too simulated, too much a spectacle. But all authorized politics is spectacle. He just does it in…

— McKenzie Wark

In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic…

— McKenzie Wark