Kathy Acker's Astrologer Told Her She Would Meet Somebody--and That Was Me: A conversation with McKenzie Wark, one of our most dazzling contemporary theorists, about what we can learn from one of America's most dazzling post-modern writers “How would you center mass incarceration and policing as a thing that affects people who are likely to be people of color and working-class, who are likely to be trans or gender non-conforming, who are likely to be sex workers--but where no one identity is going to reveal entirely who has been subject to those things? And let's not forget identities are mostly things that the state wants. So why are we celebrating those categories? I'm wary of that. And the other side, of course, is identities are things you can market to. So, of course, it's hard to make this argument and, at the same time, insist that we still need to pay more attention to and center the voices and leadership of Black people, of women, of trans people, of the undocumented. So, we should concede that, but also insist that it's not about the identity: it's about those experiences.” “So, there was a power relationship. You do meet people who do interesting things because they have access to money and cultural capital. We have students like that, and I'm like, stop beating yourself up or pretending to be poor. Do something interesting with the access you’ve been given to the world.”