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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... Marxism seems to me to have shrunk somewhat . Yet there are a few texts that still seem positively luminous . A few pages of Marx's 1844 manu- script on money and estranged labor and in the Grundrisse on the world mar- ket ; a few pages ...
... Marxism , making it vital and lively , from Rosa Luxemburg to Michel Foucault.52 The break with the East tore Marxism loose from its moorings in an imaginary political space and dispersed it to the four corners of cultural and political ...
... Marxism . A Marxism which appears to grow out of the event itself , or rather out of what the event reveals . Given that it was the telegraphed news of a looming crisis which incited in Marx the tremendous outpourings of the Grundrisse ...