The first event in the 2022 series Image Complex.
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This series introduces new scholarship on the way visuality shapes the history and politics of identity, technology and imperialism.
Images and artworks exist not simply as objects to be admired or interpreted, but as part of a vast visual infrastructure that governs our lives, shaping what we see, who we are, and what we can do. This infrastructure is what Meg McLagan and Yates McKee call the “image complex”.
Series convened by Nick Croggon, Events and Programs Officer at the Power Institute.
McKenzie Wark is the author, among other things, of A Hacker Manifesto (Havard 2004), Gamer Theory (Harvard 2007), The Beach Beneath the Street (Verso 2011) and Capital is Dead (Verso 2019). Her most recent book is Philosophy for Spiders: on the low theory of Kathy Acker (Duke 2020). She is professor of media and culture at Eugene Lang College, The New School in New York City.