McKenzie Wark is a professor of Media and Culture at The New School in New York City. She has published numerous groundbreaking works on twenty-first century critical theory, including A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory and Capital is Dead. She has also contributed to an alternative history of Marxism with works such as Leaving the Twentieth Century and Molecular Red, and has written on contemporary theory and problems in collaborative knowledge production in General Intellects and Sensoria.
Alongside her academic work, she developed a distinct autofictional writing style in books such as Dispositions, Philosophy for Spiders, Raving, Reverse Cowgirl and Love and Money, Sex and Death. In these texts, sexual aesthetics, dissociation and her own experience as a trans woman form the starting point for theorising new models of contemporary living. In Wark’s writing, intellectualism is not an abstract pursuit, but a form of everyday life.