Please join Professor McKenzie Wark for an end-of-semester drink to celebrate the publication of his new book from Verso, General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty First Century, a guide to the thinkers and ideas that will shape the future.
Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Wolff Conference Room, 6 East 16th Street, New York, NY 10003, Room D1103
What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues we no longer have such singular figures, but there are, instead, general intellects whose writing could, if read collectively, explain our times.
Covering topics such as culture, politics, work, technology, and the Anthropocene, each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others. McKenzie Wark’s distinctive readings are appreciations, but are nonetheless critical of how neoliberal universities militate against cooperative intellectual work that endeavors to understand and also change the world.
The thinkers included are Amy Wendling, Kojin Karatani, Paolo Virno, Yann Moulier Boutang, Maurizio Lazzarato, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Angela McRobbie, Paul Gilroy, Slavoj Žižek, Jodi Dean, Chantal Mouffe, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Hiroki Azuma, Paul B. Préciado, Wendy Chun, Alexander Galloway, Timothy Morton, Quentin Meillassoux, Isabelle Stengers, and Donna Haraway.
McKenzie Wark is Chair of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College and Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research (NSSR).