As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism environmental catastrophe and
technological transformation who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to
understand the world we live in? McKenzie Wark surveys three areas at the cutting edge of
current critical thinking: design environment technology and introduces us to the thinking of
nineteen major writers. Each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker providing
useful context and connections to the work of the others. The authors include: Sianne Ngai
Kodwo Eshun Lisa Nakamura Hito Steyerl Yves Citton Randy Martin Jackie Wang Anna
Lowenhaupt Tsing Achille Mbembe Deborah Danowich and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Eyal Weizman
Cory Doctorow Benjamin Bratton Tiziana Terranova Keller Easterling Jussi Parikka. Wark
argues that we are too often told that expertise is obtained by specialisation. Sensoria
connects the themes and arguments across intellectual silos. They explore the edges of
disciplines to show how we might know the world: through the study of culture the different
notions of how we create such things and the impact that the machines that we devise have had
upon us. The book is a vital and timely introduction to the future both as a warning but also
as a road map on how we might find our way out of the current crisis.
