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Archive of General Intellects

    McKenzie Wark
    04 September 2020
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    Prisoners of the Algorithm: On Jackie Wang 

    McKenzie Wark, author of Sensoria, discusses algorithmic injustice, racial capitalism and Afropessimism alongside the work of Jackie Wang.

    Verso Books
    23 August 2020
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    Critical Theory: Verso Student Reading

    Our Critical Theory reading for the academic year ahead: all 40% off until the end of September.

    Franco 'Bifo' Berardi
    17 April 2020
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    Life in Lockdown: Franco “Bifo” Berardi

    In this new series, authors give us a window into their quarantined days. Here Bifo reflects on how he is haunted by the umbral, and the woman writers he is reading.

    McKenzie Wark
    12 February 2019
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    Elizabeth Povinelli: when the rocks turn their backs on us

    If biopower is the power to make live and let live, then what is geopower? What if the power that lay at the boundary between life and nonlife was becoming more important in the Anthropocene? McKenzie Wark approaches this question through a reading of recent work by Elizabeth Povinelli. 

    McKenzie Wark
    01 February 2019
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    A Billion Black Anthropocenes

    What happens when the Anthropocene meets critical race studies? One answer might be that you get Kathryn Yusoff’s provocative small book A Billion Black Anthropocenes, (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). If geologists are going to name a geological epoch after ‘Anthropos,’ then it might be an idea to put that in contact with one of the deepest critiques of the whole category.
    Verso Books
    18 November 2018
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    Philosophy: A Verso Bookshelf

    Our ultimate books on Philosophy and Political Theory.

    McKenzie Wark
    19 March 2018
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    Jackie Wang: Ghosts of the Civil Dead

    McKenzie Wark looks at Jackie Wang's new book on carceral capitalism, the predatory state, municipal plunder, and algorithmic governance. 

    Franco “Bifo” Berardi
    16 March 2018
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    Bifo: Global civil war and the rotting of the white mind

    Franco "Bifo" Berardi on the rise of mass violence in America, Donald Trump and white resentment

    McKenzie Wark
    16 October 2017
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    The October Revolution of Antoine Volodine

    In the centenary of the October revolution, much has been said about it as a moment in history. Here McKenzie Wark inquires as to what becomes of the myth of October, now that we are in the time of the Anthropocene. 

    McKenzie Wark
    05 October 2017
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    Bruno Latour: Occupy Earth

    In General Intellects, I offer condensed versions of twenty-one leading thinkers across a range of fields. but I did not include figures in anthropology, as I am still working my way through reading in what's going on there. I have been finding some exciting stuff. Elsewhere, I wrote about Anna Tsing and Achille Mbembe and Eduardo Viveros de Castro. Here I offer a critical account of the recent work of Bruno Latour on the occasion of the publication of his lectures Facing Gaia. 

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