November, 2025
2025ons12nov18:0019:30McKenzie Wark: On ‘Molecular Red’, in collaboration with Existenz Forlag
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Innmeldt arrangement:
On its 10th
anniversary, Existenz Forlag (NOR) will publish a Norwegian
translation of McKenzie Wark’s visionary book, Molecular Red: A Theory for the
Anthropocene (2015).
As a preamble, we invite you to revisit this classic of contemporary theory
with the author, exploring it within the wider context of her work, including
conceptual critiques such as A Hacker Manifesto (2004) and Gamer Theory (2007).
A revival of half-forgotten Soviet thinkers like Platonov and Bogdanov, Molecular
Red is truly what the latter would call a ‘Science of the Future’,
including lost futures and futures to be revived in radical and Martian red
science fiction—as well as in a very real politics for a perturbed Planetary
Age.
Celebrated by critical theorists like Žižek and Haraway, as well as by the
Californian climate fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, Molecular
Red opens up a vista for rethinking the Anthropocene in the light of
the possible futures of our recent past. As Wark revisits her seminal book and
the questions of utopias and dystopias and their role in culture wars, she will
also discuss it in the context of recent writings and world events in
conversation with Remi Nilsen (NOR), Editor-in-Chief of Le
Monde diplomatique.
Introduction by
Karmaklubb* and Lars
Holm-Hansen, Existenz
Forlag.
FREE! ID:
20. Language: English. The venue is accessible. Location: Pilestredet 24.
Please note: Due to
limited capacity, please arrive early to secure your spot <3 Please reach
out if you have any further questions or concerns regarding the event, and we
will do our best to assist and solve.
*
Since 2018, Karmaklubb*
has organized several international discursive events, screenings, artist
presentations, facilitated artistic and theoretical research as well as
published texts focusing on spaces—physically, virtual, hybrid—that allows
senses of freedom; where hierarchies dissolve and categories vanish, for
something else to form. There are many keys: Art can be one, clubbing too, or
writing. Our first
encounter was
with American artist Tony Cokes’ video work Mikrohaus, or the black
atlantic? (2018), while one of the most recent outcomes: a week-long festival with Australian
thinker and writer McKenzie Wark, taking place at Trekanten, Det Norske
Teatret, and MUNCH, followed by a celebration at Black Box teater, Oslo.
Acknowledgements: This
series of events has been made possible through the collaboration with McKenzie
Wark; PRAKSIS; Anders Dunker and Existenz Forlag, Oslo; ONLY SLIME and Det
Norske Teatret; MUNCH and MUNCH Triennale 2025: Almost Unreal; Trekanten, Oslo;
Black Box teater, Oslo; Tronsmo bøker & tegneserier, Oslo, and all Partners
and Artists involved in the individual events. We are grateful for the support
from Arts and Culture Norway (Kulturdirektoratet); Agency for Cultural Affairs,
City of Oslo (Kulturetaten, Oslo kommune); The Royal Norwegian Consulate
General, New York, NY, USA / The Ministry of Foreign Affairs; The Fritt Ord
Foundation / Stiftelsen Fritt Ord; MUNCH, Oslo, and Det Norske Teatret, Oslo.
Credits:
Photo by Z Walsh. Courtesy of McKenzie Wark.