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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... East and the West has to be understood as a much more historically constituted form of relation , a relation between flickering images cast by the firepower of the vector in the dark recesses of both Eastern and Western perception ...
... East ? How does the framing of the other in this or that storyline implicate the West's own self - im- age ? To the East : What was the relationship between the image of the West coming from the media vector and the action that ensued ...
... Eastern life . The unreal image of the West exposes the unreality of the image of the East . Not exactly a classical recipe for enlighten- ment , but something considerably more interesting than the narcissistic self- affirmation that ...