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Make Kith Not Kin!

On Donna Haraway

June 24, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

When my daughter was little, we played a game on the way to her preschool called Count the Dog Poo. It was a game about counting, as you would play with any child, but also a game for a little New Yorker, to teach her to watch where she steps. ...

Science & Technology

Barbarism or Barbarism?

December 28, 2015 • by McKenzie Wark

Timothy Morton proposes an ecology without nature. In Molecular Red I thought it made more sense to think a nature without ecology, as nature is the more capacious and historically variable term, whereas a logos of the oikos – ecology – is precisely what can no longer be said to ...

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Blog-Post for Cyborgs

On Donna Haraway

September 24, 2015 • by McKenzie Wark

Donna Haraway was born in the forties, trained as a biologist, and radicalized during the Vietnam war years. Lodged at the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1980, Haraway is, on her own admission, a product of both cold war techno-science and the struggle ...

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From Metaphyiscs to Meatphysics

June 10, 2015 • by McKenzie Wark

The mark of a major body of work is that it will support more than one interpretation, all of which are coherent and persuasive, and each of which is open-ended enough for further elaboration. So it is with Marx. But at least one possible path of interpretation and elaboration seems ...

Multi Media

A Dialogue between Richard Rottenburg and Richard Bernstein on Critique and Hope

Jeffrey Goldfarb

May 5, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The discussion following Richard Rottenburg’s Heuss Lecture did not fully explore the insights and challenges of the lecture. Nor were the questions and concerns fully articulated and evaluated. I particularly had a sense that Richard Bernstein asked a key question and it would be good for Rottenburg to consider it ...

A Dialogue between Richard Rottenburg and Richard Bernstein on Critique and Hope

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Richard Rottenburg on Anthropology, Critique and Hope

The Theodor Heuss Lecture

May 4, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

On April 15th, Richard Rottenburg, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Halle, Germany and the 2014-2015 Theodor Heuss Visiting Professor at The New School for Social Research, presented a lecture to The New School’s General Seminar. Here is the announcement of the event: For a long time anthropology had a penchant ...

Richard Rottenburg on Anthropology, Critique and Hope

Theory & Practice

#Accelerate in reverse

October 2, 2014 • by McKenzie Wark

Nothing seems more urgent now than to find useful ways of thinking what Donna Haraway calls naturecultures, and to do so historically. The elimination in advance of the problem of the continuities from the natural to the cultural that is such an ingrained prejudice in the humanities and social sciences ...

Theory & Practice

Joseph Needham, the Great Amphibian

September 5, 2014 • by McKenzie Wark

Like most people who teach in the humanities, I think that there are ways of understanding the present through the past. We return again and again to certain key authors as touchstones. There are two different ways of going about this, however. One is to take the succession of key authors ...