Love’s no bargain. There’s no exchange, no transaction, with the world. One just tries and fails to give. One just trusts in a capacity to exceed oneself and open oneself, to go, to let go. In love, there’s no happy endings. Only the memory of moments when what can be—was.

McKenzie Wark is the author of A Hacker Manifesto, The Beach beneath the Street, The Spectacle of Disintegration, Molecular Red, Capital Is Dead, as well as the popular introductions to contemporary thought General Intellects and Sensoria. In 2017, she came out as transgender. Since, she has published her trans autofiction books, Reverse Cowgirl and Raving, and a work that combines memoir and literary criticism about Kathy Acker, Philosophy for Spiders. She teaches at Eugene Lang College, the New School.