41. Interview
McKenzie Wark
in conversation with Ryan Mangione
"Trans women have never really had a consolidated, ongoing, well-documented, accessible, aesthetically varied, intergenerational, interracial culture."
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"Trans women have never really had a consolidated, ongoing, well-documented, accessible, aesthetically varied, intergenerational, interracial culture."
"My work is about staging and confronting our reality with fiction."
"I like to be both inside and outside."
“The ecological is a sensibility.”
"It’s too easy to be curious, but not optimistic; or optimistic, but not curious."
"Torture and therapy here are not antipodal."
"Simulation faced the same unceremonious end as its referent."
“We are forever circling the drain.”
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