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.