Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events"The author's capacity to grasp and interpret these [world media] events is astounding, and her ability to provide insights into a world where unbounded information is circling the earth with the speed of light is startling." -- Choice "... a wide-ranging, quirky and dextrous mix of description, theory and analysis, that documents the perils of the global telecommunications network... " -- Times Literary Supplement "... this is a stimulating, even moving, book, dense with ideas and with many quotable lines." -- The New Statesman "Wark is one of the most original and interesting cultural critics writing today." -- Lawrence Grossberg McKenzie Wark writes about the experience of everyday life under the impact of increasingly global media vectors. We no longer have roots, we have aerials. We no longer have origins, we have terminals. |
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5. intersection A Thrall of Political Furies Dateline : Tiananmen Square , Beijing ,
20 May 1989. Things are at present Martial law has been declared , yet the
demonstrations in the heart of Beijing continue . This is more than a
demonstration by ...
53. Rey Chow , Writing Diaspora : Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary
Cultural Studies ( Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1993 ) , p . 23 . 54.
Quoted in Han Minzhu , Cries for Democracy , pp . 342-348 . 55. Lu Yuan , “
Beijing Diary ...
Cf. Gregor Benton , “ Beijing Spring , " New Statesman , 26 May 1989 . 2. Elias
Canetti , Crowds and Power ( Harmondsworth : Penguin , 1984 ) , pp . 214 220 .
3. Ibid . , pp . 54–66 . 4. McKenzie Wark , “ On Technological Time , ” Arena , no .
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| Title | Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events Arts and politics of the everyday Indiana University International Studies |
| Authors | McKenzie Wark, Wark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1994 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2006 |
| ISBN | 0253363497, 9780253363497 |
| Length | 252 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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