2024/01/26

McKenzie Wark Describes Masculinity as an Ill-Fitting Suit

“I was cosplaying masculinity for years, sometimes pretty well frankly, but the suit literally never fit. So that gives you a different way of thinking, like what’s a better fiction? This is not my true self. This is a better fiction that I would so much rather play.”
– Theorist McKenzie Wark, on the fluidity of gender and identity. “There’s no such thing as a true self,” says Wark, in conversation with Jordan Kisner about transitioning and its profound impact on her writing practice.
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