Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twentieth-First CenturyDesign, Politics, the Environment: a survey of the key thinkers and ideas that are rebuilding the world in the shadow of the anthropocene As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to understand the world we live in? McKenzie Wark surveys three areas at the cutting edge of current critical thinking: design, environment, technology and introduces us to the thinking of nineteen major writers. Each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others. The authors include: Sianne Ngai, Kodwo Eshun, Lisa Nakamura, Hito Steyerl, Yves Citton, Randy Martin, Jackie Wang, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Achille Mbembe, Deborah Danowich and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Eyal Weizman, Cory Doctorow, Benjamin Bratton, Tiziana Terranova, Keller Easterling, Jussi Parikka. Wark argues that we are too often told that expertise is obtained by specialisation. Sensoria connects the themes and arguments across intellectual silos. They explore the edges of disciplines to show how we might know the world: through the study of culture, the different notions of how we create such things, and the impact that the machines that we devise have had upon us. The book is a vital and timely introduction to the future both as a warning but also as a road map on how we might find our way out of the current crisis. |
Contents
Toward the Common Task | 1 |
Aesthetics | 9 |
Black Accelerationism | 21 |
Digitizing Race | 36 |
Art Is Beauty That Does not Try to Kill Us | 46 |
Ecologies of Attention | 59 |
After Capitalism the Derivative | 71 |
Ethnographics | 87 |
Climate Colonialism | 152 |
Technics | 163 |
The Stack to Come | 175 |
At the Coalface of the Interface | 192 |
The Address of Power | 208 |
Extrastatecraft and the Digital City | 225 |
Geology of Media | 233 |
Notes | 249 |
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