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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... appears within the network , not beyond and outside it . The other that appears on this map as the product of a socialist , un- divided labor is just that - an appearance . Even Marxism and socialist labor must appear as images of ...
... appear as standing reserves , from the point of view of their instrumental uses . Nature appears as so many acres of pasture yielding a certain quantity of beef or rice , with a certain susceptibility to flood and drought . Or as a ...
... appears differently depending on from where one sees it . One never grasps it in its totality , one grasps only a ... appears to have goals . ( And note that I said appears to have goals . ) The forces and relations of communication ...