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.
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