{"title":"McKenzie Wark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMcKenzie Wark\u003c\/strong\u003e offers incisive explorations at the crossroads of culture, politics, and technology. Their works challenge conventional thought with sharp analysis on topics ranging from media theory to the dynamics of power in the digital age. Readers can expect intellectually stimulating texts that engage deeply with contemporary issues and cultural critique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlurring genres between critical theory and social commentary, Wark's books traverse \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Her past life becomes a stranger to her, a past she can only reclaim by writing to important figures in her life, addressing the big themes that haunt us all: love and money, sex and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTold through a series of letters—to her childhood self, her mother, sister, and her past lovers—she grapples with where she has come from and what this change means. She engages with the politics and aesthetics of trans culture and how they impact her sense of identity, both past and present. 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At the afters, tired and drained and covered in schmutz, we think some more. We look around at our raver friends and wonder: How did we get here? What happened to us? What is this tentacular, thrashing, swelling thing that we all made together? That thing that is now slumped and aching and coming down now into our fragmentary, singular lives?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBetween all of us, there are many answers to such questions. Wark, Mak, and Beery have gathered their favourite ones to share in this first-ever anthology of writing on raving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting on Raving\u003c\/em\u003e is a night of readings and performances about nightlife, dancing, and techno, about why we love these things, but also how that love is complicated. It brings together a diverse range of writers whose dispatches from dance floors, bedrooms, and their own histories hold a mirror to a community whose cultural preservation is still emergent. 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