How to throw a party
...queerness. Aesthetic surplus. The queers are always taking things too far. I am not wearing deodorant. I find McKenzie Wark outside. She is our greatest...
Shapeshifting press Semiotext(e)’s five decades of politics and poetics
...depiction of ’80s New York and one of Myles’s first books not mimeographed and stapled. Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark, I’m very into you (Correspondence...
Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary
...final New York City book-launch event at Paragon as part of the Writing on Raving series he runs with McKenzie Wark and Zoë Beery. He...
For Tyler Matthew Oyer, queerness is a cosmic dance
...did you channel these elements of astronomy into the performance itself? Tyler: I heard McKenzie Wark speak last year, and she said something like ‘Techno...
Second Life’s loyal users embrace its decaying software and no-fun imperfections
...its fault lines. “The whole of life appears as a vast accumulation of commodities and spectacles, of things wrapped in images and images sold as...
Daytripping: Dancefloor antagonism
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark works through the feelings of antagonism for all the other dancers....
Daytripping: Vibe editor
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark passes the mic to Shawn Dickerson, to talk 40 years on the New York nightlife circuit...
Daytripping: Conventions of Care
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark experiences two very different kinds of dance culture...
Daytripping: Christmas for pagans
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark finds the pagan spirit of the season....
Resisting simulations of the self
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, McKenzie Wark grapples with society’s love for identity-making, imagining a future free from flags or labels...
In the New Hampshire wild, DJs Octo Octa and Eris Drew forage for the sound of home
...records. McKenzie: So when you’re here, you also have to run a label. Maya: Two labels. McKenzie: And do the laundry. Eris: Something changed in...
Document Launches Fall/Winter 2023: Identity in Flux
...of the past? Can personhood be self-determined?” There are tangible representations of this: McKenzie Wark examines the proliferation of identity flags, which, she explains, “solves...
Daytripping: Out of the bubble
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark weekends outside of Brooklyn, finding more queerness and Pippa Garner’s Art Omi show...
Daytripping: Publication day
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark ponders the problem of art in the age of content...
Daytripping: Beautiful feedback
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark attends a Suzanne Ciani concert, and gets thinking on information theory and control...
Daytripping: Big Gay Summer
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark reflects on the queer crowds of the Island, the Beach, and the Campout...
Daytripping: The writer and the rave
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark considers noise, information theory, and the text of the party...
Daytripping: I put a spell on you
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes of the bewitching effects of a good DJ set—or really any art...
Daytripping: Bushwick nationalism
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about the ambiguity of culture, and who’s entitled to public space...
Daytripping: The dance floor is no utopia, but I’ll take it anyways
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about the cis-het imagination, and blowing off steam at Pride...
Daytripping: Embracing the barely-known
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark mediates on the work of Elysia Crampton, and the problem of letting otherness into our lives...
Daytripping: Living in the gaps of being
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about dissonance—in music, at the party, and in one’s own body...
Daytripping: Learning the art of letting go
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about a cross-generational spring party and the simple comforts of dance...
Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in April
...month’s iteration heard from Brock Colyar, Jesús Hilario-Reyes, Oni Lem, Sul Mousavi, and, of course, McKenzie Wark—the “Bushwick-famous” brilliant writer behind Document’s Daytripping column. For...
Daytripping: The top 20 nightlife scenes in cinema
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark lists her favorite instances of on-screen dancing, from the rave in Zion to ’60s sci-fi fantasia...
Daytripping: Herding cats
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes about raves in relation to service workers, and how she once got on the wrong side...
Daytripping: Ghost dance
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark tells a tale of two boroughs, two generations, and what we’ve lost and found through nightlife...
McKenzie Wark on raving and the infrastructure of queer life
“It’s what Torrey Peters once called Bushwick Famous,” McKenzie Wark explains when I ask her how she feels about her relative celebrity in Brooklyn’s trans...
Daytripping: Dancing into the folds of time
In her bi-weekly column for Document Journal, McKenzie Wark writes about dancing at Berlin’s Berghain, the world-famous temple of techno...
Daytripping: A dance to the music of time
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark checks in with an intergenerational Downtown bohemia...
Daytripping: How dancing can make you gay
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes on the interpenetration of queer and straight spaces...
Daytripping: The irreplaceable soundtrack to MDMA
In her bi-weekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark writes of the gap between the body and the body’s image of itself...
Daytripping: A night at the club, and tears before bedtime
In McKenzie Wark’s bi-weekly column for Document, two trans girls commune above the noise...
Daytripping: The collective catharsis of ravespace
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark explores the dance floor as an antidote to dysphoria...
Daytripping: A tale of two raves, and finding desire in the spaces between
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark explores what we seek on a night out—and how we often find ourselves wanting more...
Daytripping: The queer rave fulfills the promise of family that Thanksgiving can’t
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark explores the catharsis of Halloween and the minefield of going home for the holidays...
Document rings in a decade of independent art and culture at Le Dive
...celebration of the magazine’s first decade. Guests who shaped the city’s innovatory reputation—luminaries like Mickalene Thomas, Laurie Simmons, Ming Smith, McKenzie Wark, Lynne Tillman, Ira...
Mapping a modern trans bohemia in the borough of the flesh
From Greenpoint to Flatbush, McKenzie Wark outlines community on the margins of straight life...
