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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... there was already a strange familiarity about it all . With the unfolding of the
hostage crisis , the Gulf war as an event ... How do you remember the Gulf war ,
or the fall of the Berlin Wall ? So much information about so many occurrences ,
all ...
Hamid Mowlana , a leading authority on development and communication ,
points out that the Gulf region has a long history of integration into the
international media vector . At the turn of the century , Lord Curzon described
British interests in ...
Fascination with the Gulf war didn't last long , but there was a more durably
intriguing formal quality to the everyday experience of the event . The distinction
between public and private space seemed to have been superseded by a
distinction ...
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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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