Love and Money, Sex and Death Book

RELEASE DATE - 26 SEPTEMBER 2023

After a successful career, a twenty-year marriage, and raising two kids, McKenzie Wark has a particularly extreme midlife crisis: coming out as a trans woman. Changing both social role and bodily form recast her whole relation to the world and reveal it to her as something strange and different. Her past life becomes a stranger to her, a past she can only reclaim by writing to important figures in her life, about the big themes that haunt us all, of love and money, sex and death.

Told through a series of letters - to her childhood self, her mother, sister and her past lovers - she grapples with where she has come from and what this change means. She engages with the politics and aesthetics of trans culture and how they impact on her sense of who she is, and who she has been. She confronts difficult memories of her mother's death and her compulsion to write, growing up and her involvement in politics, coming to New York and embracing the counterculture and the realisations and reality of her late transition.

Combining the deeply personal and political, Love and Money, Sex and Death is a provocative call to arms that recasts the mould for trans memoirs.

"Wark has long been a brilliant scholar of Marxism, Situationism and Poststructuralism, rewriting the canon of critical theory."
Dave Beech ― Art Monthly [for Capital is Dead]

"A very imaginative, historically smart, politically generative thesis ... that I think we urgently need."
Donna Harraway ― [for Molecular Red]

"Wark is a fine aphorist ... Playful, angry, depressed, celebratory, this is a book for anyone not convinced that there is no alternative to the way we live now."
Observer, [For The Beach Beneath the Streets]

"A wonderful book ... informative and moving."
Kim Stanley Robinson ― [for Molecular Red]