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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... capital of capital . For a moment while the wall was down , all could see that capital is not rational , it is barely even conceivable . Just for a moment the ruler of the citadel of capital did not appear personified as the all ...
... Capital drives the vector further and harder , forcing its tech- nologies to innovate , but at the same time it ... capital - the '87 crash , for example . The benefit capital derives from the vector is not without its side effects ...
... capital is intimately connected to his experience of the new abstract geography that the perpetuum mobile of capital describes across the landscape.33 " The circulation of money began at an infinite number of points and returned to an ...