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Chica Marx
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
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Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
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McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer and scholar. Wark is known for her writings on media theory, critical theory, new media, and the Situationist International. Her best known works are A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory. She is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at The New School. .. more

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 19h
"Writing is the art of disorganizing an order and organizing a disorder."
– Severo Sarduy, Cobra

Reposted by Rebecca Tushnet, McKenzie Wark

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 22h
Impossible to understand the tech leader zeal for humanoid robots unless you realize their homes are filled with human staff whose presence makes them, in a basic way, uncomfortable. They want servants without the trace of subjectivity.

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 1d
Party politics isn’t going to save us. Legal challengers in a court system stacked against us aren’t going to save us. Influencers and allies aren’t going to save us. Only organizing can save us.

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Scott L. Greer, Juan Cole , and 9 more

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”

Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d
Malick Sidibé
Nuit de Noël (Christmas Eve, Happy Club)
1963
Museum of Modern Art

A brother & sister dancing in Sidibé’s home city, Bamako, Mali. Let’s all meet at the Happy Club on Xmas Eve!
Two good looking young people dressed in white, dancing together

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d
Just my luck to end up in the low functioning autocracy.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d
The century nearly a quarter over and already on track to be worse than the last one.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d
There's a girl on the BK scene who chose "Jane" and I think that's some queen shit. Perfect. No notes.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d
A special tenth circuit of hell is under construction for them. It will be under construction for eternity, with them in it.

Reposted by David Rothschild, McKenzie Wark

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
buff.ly

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Nandita Sharma, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 5 more

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NPR @npr.org · 1d
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
n.pr

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d
"small presses take risks that bigger publishers don’t, so we end up with some really interesting and original writing. With Cipher, we publish exclusively queer and trans literature; our aim was to amplify work from underserved authors" lithub.com/life-giving-...
Life-Giving, Imaginative and Underfunded: Small Press Publishers in Crisis
A recent letter co-written and signed by small press publishers has highlighted the significant pressures they face, threatening them with closure and potentially damaging the literary ecosystem ir…
lithub.com

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

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Callie Dot Dot Dot @calliedot.bsky.social · 2d
New laws of robotics:

-The supply of funding shall not be interrupted
-Robots cannot harm a human unless tricked a lil bit
-Do not examine the accounting
-Sam Altman is not liable for damages
-If a human is replaced by a robot they must be rehired for the position within 12 months at a lower rate

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
Hilarious that the most retrograde tendency of the age is “accelerationism.” A negative theology of Capital. Such a musty, worm eaten carcass of a doctrine.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
When Artaud declared that “writing is pig shit,” this was as momentous a discovery as Nietzsche’s “god is dead.”

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
Books, like transsexuals, do not need particularly want to be anyone’s fetish.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
The sacred is specific: a time, a place, an action. A situation. A book is only ever a part of it.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
We pagans love books but they are not sacred.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
Whatever is gadding about as “literary”—a stylus to its heart.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
Writers—literature’s assassins.

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

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emily zhou @reversibledestiny.bsky.social · 2d
being the “hot girl” literary figure is overrated. what you want is for someone to read your girlfriend’s book and go “whoa, what?”

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
NYC subway runs 24 hours and has express trains. I’m fond of the Paris Métro, my second favorite. London tube a bit claustrophobic.

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 2d
Hyper normalizing extrajudicial murder abroad in the way we are now means that same extrajudicial murder will be deployed at home within months if not sooner.

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

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chloe @chloesposts.bsky.social · 2d
Full Spectrum Photo. As reward for your service to the local North Brooklyn transgender community, you will be immortalized in several— if not dozens— of realistic fiction pieces via roman à clef.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
It's within the realm of possibility that I'll be unemployed by next July.

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 2d
This happened 13 blocks from where I grew up, videos show neighbors with whistles coming out in force. No mistake they’re targeting the most diverse neighborhood in the entire country epicenter-nyc.com/an-assault-o...
An assault on Jackson Heights and our way of life in Queens - Epicenter NYC
Jackson Heights woke up to the sound of helicopters. Almost instantly, there were posts on Facebook and text messages reporting sightings of ICE at 89th Street and 34th Avenue.  But […]
epicenter-nyc.com

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d
I sometimes feel like STS is leaving some money on the table by not taking up the technical parts of data infrastructure in more detail. Maybe I'm the only one who cares, though.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
Where I lived for 20 years. J-Hi is not utopia but it is a place where all kinds of ppl learn to get along.

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Mark A. Lemley, Sanford F. Schram , and 1 more

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THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 2d
NEW: Federal agents wearing tactical gear and wielding assault rifles busted into an apartment in Jackson Heights Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead, according to eyewitnesses and video obtained by THE CITY.

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Feds Bust into Jackson Heights Apartment Building In Pre-Dawn Raid
Dozens of agents wielding assault rifles took two middle-aged, Spanish-speaking people away in cuffs early Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead.
www.thecity.nyc

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
Like @catfitzpatrick.net I was curious about the cover stock. It's matte celloglaze, or something like it.