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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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Communication & Media Studies 20%
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merritt @merrittk.com · 13h
cars may kill a lot of people everyday but at least they are also very expensive and insanely inefficient means of getting around

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 14h
Je suis de retour à Paris pour des événements les 3 et 5 mars.

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Entretien avec McKenzie Wark
Réinterroger les subjectivités par un marxisme vulgaire.
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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 18h
Paris! I'm coming for 2 events to celebrate the release of TRANS AMAZONE | 3rd March Les mots à bouche | 5th March Treize
3rd March 7PM conversation with Mia Trabalon Les Mots à la bouche 37 rue Saint Ambroise 75011 Paris 5th March doors at 7PM readings from Trans Amazone (in FR and EN) McKenzie Wark with Mona Filleul, R. Moreno , Mia Trabalon, Farrah Youssef Treize 24 rue Moret 75011 Paris

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h
Sugarcane production was brutal work that left workers subjected to horrendous conditions for barely any pay while US sugar barrons became unimaginably wealthy. They siphoned wealth from the island while leaving it impoverished. Attempts to fight for better wages resulted in violent crackdowns.
A wide-angle aerial shot showing a vast, green sugarcane plantation under a dramatic, cloudy sky. Several workers dressed in white are visible in a line, working within a narrow path cut through the tall crops A black-and-white historical photograph of a large sugar mill complex nestled against a backdrop of rolling hills. In the foreground, several railcars sit on a curved track, piled high with harvested sugarcane stalks. The industrial site features a tall, slender smokestack emitting dark smoke, several large warehouse-style buildings with gabled roofs, and a massive cylindrical storage tank. The scene captures a stark, industrial contrast to the agricultural origin of the crop. A black-and-white photo showing five male workers posing in front of a massive wall of stacked burlap sacks, likely filled with processed sugar. The men wear simple work clothes and hats; some lean casually against the sacks. To the left, a mechanical conveyor or industrial crane structure is partially visible. A poignant, close-up shot of an elderly man standing in a field, leaning on a wooden staff. He wears a straw hat and is captured in a candid moment, using a cloth to wipe sweat or dust from his eye, highlighting the physical toll of field labor.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h
The show opens with a Jibaro (countryside person in Puerto Rico) playing a guitar in a sugarcane field while wearing a pava (traditional hat worn by Puerto Rican farmers).

Sugarcane was a major cash crop that the US exploited as a colonial power (Domino Sugar)
A medium-wide shot shows a man smiling while playing an acoustic guitar in the middle of a tall sugarcane field. He wears a wide-brimmed straw hat and a light-colored long-sleeve shirt. The tall, green stalks of sugarcane rise well above his head, creating a dense, natural backdrop under a clear blue sky. The lighting is warm and bright, suggesting a sunny day.

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tranna karenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 21h
what if garth brooks tried to pull that chris gaines shit now? imagine the commotion

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 1d
I cannot emphasize enough that what he's singing here, obscured by beeps, is "If your boyfriend doesn't eat your ass, he'd better fuck off"

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 1d
A Google Street View glitch accidentally created the most kickass Honda CRV ever.
Photo of a white Honda CRV that appears to have six doors and six wheels by virtue of an obvious photo glitch

Reposted by Jonathan Wolff, McKenzie Wark, Henry Farrell , and 1 more

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Zak Jarvis @zakjarvis.bsky.social · 1d
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.

She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.

It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d
LLMs will replace that which in language was not human already anyway. Language is a vast, inhuman structure and process with a lot of redundancy built in.
sarahweinman.com Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 1d
urbanomnibus.net/2026/02/wher... This is a very cool project reverse engineering Amazon shipping routes!
Where's My Package? - Urban Omnibus
Amazon’s logistical network is as extensive as it is abstruse. To get a sense of its scale, we reconstruct the regional distribution system, one order at a time.
urbanomnibus.net

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com

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Max Fenton @maxfenton.bsky.social · 1d
Warehouses for servers (with all the potable water); warehouses for humans (with none)

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hannah account @junglist.bsky.social · 2d
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLRH...
SISTER CAROL - PRINCIPLE
YouTube video by leggotherydim
www.youtube.com

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Isobel Fox @isobel.bsky.social · 2d
i wonder what magic the tech industry will develop next. a calendar that is 75% accurate and gives you an eating disorder

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
It’s on the syllabus

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
“Bohemians” gave us ACT-UP. This is some unrelated nonsense.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 2d
"Afterward, some friends said his death was tragic and asked why. I said I imagined people killed themselves for reasons as varied as the one’s others used to live."
– Nate Lippens, My Dead Book

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 2d
“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing
Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
In the good old days the stars attracted the best grad students and wrote them (often generic) letters of rec. They were roaming ambassadors for their programs. None of this will exist in a few years time.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d
I love all these books…

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 3d
Nepo baby art as dominant genre.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 3d
Story of a civil war battle from pov of a deaf mute child. He read it to me when I was small. Which probably explains something about how we both turned out.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 3d
I have my father's copy of Ambrose Bierce stories. He read "Chickamauga" before getting bombed in Darwin by the Japanese.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 3d
Penguin did armed forces paperbacks that were smaller and on cheap paper. No price on the cover. Instructions in how to leave them for others to read.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 3d
Here's a couple of classics.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 3d
Just now learning that books for the American armed services in WW2 were printed landscape format.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 3d
Reports filtering out about whats been happening in Iran www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘I saw kids being shot, women, old people’: how a massacre unfolded in one Iranian city
The Guardian has constructed a timeline for the terrible events of one night of protests in Rasht, based on first-hand accounts, video and photographs
www.theguardian.com

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 3d
So only handmade sentences from me, I think. I’ll let someone else figure out if the plagiarism machines can be used to make art.

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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 3d
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.

Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
scumbelievable.bsky.social Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3d
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams