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
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
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
The writer meets with Document to discuss her latest book, the low genre of autofiction, and the makings of a good party
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 collective catharsis of ravespace
In her biweekly column for Document, McKenzie Wark explores the dance floor as an antidote to dysphoria
