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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... Eastern neighbors . The in- stant communication of these words to all of the above conditions the context of the ... Eastern assets , and destroyed the export markets even of viable Eastern firms . West German firms move into the Eastern ...
... Eastern Europe in all its freshness and novelty . The function of this fascination is thus purely ideological : in Eastern Europe the West looks for its own lost origins .... The Real object of fascination for the West is thus the gaze ...
... Eastern or Western . Democracy , freedom , and law have nevertheless failed to provide the same things that the Eastern states have failed to provide : a realized social utopia . Hence the only real solace events in the East can offer ...