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On a hot Summer night in Brooklyn, Matt Seybold is joined by McKenzie Wark to launch the Intellectuals issue of e-flux Journal. They discuss the legacy of the public intellectual (and other mythic species), the belated reception of the vectoralist hypothesis, education and other other spaces, the practice and pleasures of being vulgar. Followed by an energetic Q&A.
Cast (in order of appearance): Brian Kuan Wood, Matt Seybold, McKenzie Wark
Date Recorded: June 11, 2026
Music: Danny Weiss Quartet
Featured Speakers
McKenzie Wark is Professor of Culture & Media in the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. She is the author of, among other things, Capital Is Dead (2019), General Intellects (2017), and Molecular Red (2016), all from Verso Books. She edited the Intellectuals issue of e-flux Journal and contributed “A Toast To Femmunism.”
Matt Seybold is Associate Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, as well as resident scholar at the Center For Mark Twain Studies and executive producer of The American Vandal Podcast. He is the author of “The Useful Narcissist” for the Intellectuals issue of e-flux Journal.
Episode Bibliography
A. Bogdanov, Essays in Tektology: The General Science of Organization (Intersystems, 1980)
Jodi Dean, Capital’s Grave: Neofeudalism & The New Class Struggle (Verso, 2025)
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia (1972)
Verónica Gago, “A Fragment, A Message In A Bottle, A Toolbox” e-flux Journal (May 2026)
Karl Marx, “A Contribution The The Critique On Political Economy” (1859)
Annie McClanahan, Beneath The Wage: Tips, Tasks, & Gigs in The Age of Service Work (Zone Books, 2026)
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Heretical Empiricism (1972) [1988 Indiana UP Edition]
Matt Seybold, “The Useful Narcissist” e-flux Journal (May 2026)
Matt Seybold, “The Technofeudal Text” The American Vandal (August 25, 2025)
Matt Seybold et al, “Newspapers Worse Than Dead (But Print Is A Rent Strike)” The American Vandal (April 5, 2025)
Matt Seybold & John Warner, “The Technology That’s Taking Your Freedom” AAUP Center For The Defense of Academic Freedom (February 3, 2026)
David Sirota, “The Attacks On Graham Platner Are Politically Motivated” Jacobin (June 8, 2026)
Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Melville House, 2024)
John Walsh, “Graham Platner & The Rise of White Male Identity Politics” The Nation (June 5, 2026)
McKenzie Wark, Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? (Verso, 2019)
McKenzie Wark, General Intellects: 21 Thinkers For The 21st Century (Verso, 2017)
McKenzie Wark, Molecular Red: Theory For The Anthropocene (Verso, 2016)
McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard UP, 2004)
McKenzie Wark, “Editorial: Intellectuals” e-flux Journal (May 2026)
McKenzie Wark, “A Toast To Femmunism” e-flux Journal (May 2026)
