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title: "McKenzie Wark • Artists"
description: "McKenzie Wark is the author, among other things, of Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotexte), Raving (Duke) and Love and Money, Sex and Death (Verso). She is best known for a series of books of twenty-first century critical theory, including A Hacker Manifesto , Gamer Theory and Capital Is Dead . She has…"
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# McKenzie Wark

Last edited on 22.7.2026

![](https://brut-wien.at/assets/artists/mckenzie-wark/McKenzie-Wark-Ariadne-Randall.jpg)

McKenzie Wark & Ariadne Randall

© Z. Walsh & Francesca Centonze

## artist.bio

McKenzie Wark is the author, among other things, of *Reverse Cowgirl* (Semiotexte), *Raving* (Duke) and *Love and Money, Sex and Death* (Verso). She is best known for a series of books of twenty-first century critical theory, including *A Hacker Manifesto*, *Gamer Theory* and *Capital Is Dead*. She has also written works that contribute to an alternate history of Marxism, including *Leaving The Twentieth Century* and *Molecular Red*. Her survey books on contemporary theory and problems in collaborative knowledge production are *General Intellects* and *Sensoria*. She also writes in an autotheoretical style in books such as *Dispositions* and *Philosophy for Spiders*. She is a professor of media and cultural studies at a university in New York.

## Works at brut

- [Reverse Cowgirl (Buchpräsentation, imagetanz 2025)](https://archiv2.brut-wien.at/de/Programm/Kalender/Programm-2025/04/Buchpraesentation-McKenzie-Wark)
- [Reverse Cowgirl II: Ride To The Top (mit Ariadne Randall, imagetanz 2025)](https://archiv2.brut-wien.at/de/Programm/Kalender/Programm-2025/04/Ariadne-Randall)

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