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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More precisely , upon viewing the videotape replays of the East Germans kicking
down the wall , alongside the question ... lost in bureaucratic routine and publicity
- style election campaigns , is being rediscovered in Eastern Europe in all its ...
23 In this sense , the crossing of the border was a revolt against the spectacle ,
but one that used the presence of a neighboring spectacle as a mirror to work off ,
with which to critique the unreality of Eastern life . The unreal image of the West ...
The East in the West In the West , we watched professionals like Schlesinger
react to the fall of the wall . ... Our relationship to the map is as cynical as that of
our Eastern counterparts , administered by fewer police but more advertising
account ...
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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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