We ↗︎ published a text, now going IRL. *** SAVE THE DATES!!!! ***

Rough schedule

• ↗︎ Wednesday, 12 November, 19:30–21:00: On ↗︎ Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene, in conversation with Remi Nilsen (NOR), in collaboration with Existenz Forlag (NOR). Location: Trekanten, Pilestredet 24, Oslo.
• ↗︎ Thursday, 13 November, 16:00–17:30 (sharp): On Raving as well as the recently co-published text, ↗︎ Deserters' Dance (2024), in collaboration with ONLY SLIME (NOR/AUS) & Det Norske Teatret. Affiliated partner: PRAKSIS (NOR/GBR). Location: Det Norske Teatret (Bikuben, the ‘beehive’), Kristian IVs gate 8, Oslo.
• Friday, 14 November, noon: ↗︎ Visiting PRAKSIS (NOR/GBR) and R31.
• Friday, 14 November, evening/night: Opening of the MUNCH Triennale 2025: ‘Almost Unreal’ (NOR). Location: MUNCH, Edvard Munchs plass 1 (Bjørvika), Oslo.
• Saturday, 15 November, 12:00–12:30: ↗︎ Pop-up book signing at Prismatic Pages (NOR/USA/INT). Location: Rathkes gata 7 B, Oslo.
• Saturday, 15 November, 14:00–15:00: Epistemic Crisis, ↗︎ Keynote lecture for the MUNCH Triennale, followed by a panel discussion. Moderated by curators Tominga O’Donnell (NOR) and ↗︎ Mariam Elnozahy. Location: Sky Room, MUNCH.
• Saturday, 15 November, evening / night / late night (17:00–01:00): ↗︎ Foyer Party, baby! Location: Black Box teater, Marstrandgata 8, Oslo.
• All week: Books by Wark available at Tronsmo Bokhandel (NOR), Universitetsgata 12, Oslo.
• ↗︎ Posters and ↗︎ glue on the occasion, too.

Corresponding events Friday and Saturday: ↗︎ p0rn0t0pia collective’s foXXY boXXY and Wet Mess’ TESTO at Black Box teater (NOR), Oslo. Text by Paul B. Preciado.

Hot tip: Find a fine article in BLIKK (Øyvind Rones, 17 October 2025) partly on the festival ↗︎ here. As a PDF here:

The events with McKenzie Wark at Trekanten, Det Norske Teatret, and MUNCH are FREE 🎟️ That also goes for the party at Black Box teater. 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 events, and we will do our best to assist and solve. All of the venues included in this project is accessible.

Background: 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—physical, 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; Prismatic Pages, 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.

↗︎ McKenzie Wark: “What I love to write, and to teach, is ways to think critically about contemporary life, as we can perceive and understand it via its media and culture. If we can equip ourselves with concepts that create some distance from our all-too familiar media bubbles, we can find our way towards crafting better lives, singly and together. Alongside my regular courses in digital media, I’ve lately been writing and teaching a lot in transgender studies. I’ve also just finished a book about the queer and trans rave scene in New York, reviving an old interest in the study of nightlife and subcultures. I like to stay curious, and tend to move my research and writing interests on to different topics every few years—so maybe I’ll be looking into something else again soon.”

↗︎ Wark (born 1961 in Australia), is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and formerly Program Director, Gender Studies (fall 2023) at ↗︎ The New School, New York and a writer.
November/December 2024, she wrote ↗︎ Deserters’ Dance for Karmaklubb*, copublished with PRAKSIS and Dilettante Army.

Publications (selection):

• ↗︎ Raving (Duke University Press, 2023)
• ↗︎ Love and Money, Sex and Death (Verso Books, 2023)
• ↗︎ Philosophy for Spiders: on the low theory of Kathy Acker (Duke University Press, 2021)
• ↗︎ Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twentieth-First Century (Verso Books, 2020)
• ↗︎ Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotext[e], 2020)
• ↗︎ Capital Is Dead. Is This Something Worse? (Verso Books, 2019)
• ↗︎ I’m Very into You: Correspondence 1995–1996, with Kathy Acker (Semiotext[e] 2015)
• ↗︎ Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse? (Verso Books, 2019)
• ↗︎ General Intellects: 21 Thinkers for the 21st Century (Verso Books, 2017)
• ↗︎ Molecular Red: Theory of the Anthropocene (Verso Books, 2015)
• ↗︎ The Spectacle of Disintegration (Verso Books, 2013)
• ↗︎ Telesthesia: Communication, Culture & Class (Polity Press, 2012)
• ↗︎ The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Like and Glorious Times of the Situationist International (Verso Books, 2011)
• ↗︎ Gamer Theory (Harvard University Press, 2007)
• ↗︎ A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard University Press, 2004)