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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The walls that came down , ever so briefly , on Black Monday were the walls of
the 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 ...
Capital drives the vector further and harder , forcing its technologies to innovate ,
but at the same time it tries to commodify the fruits of this development . The
vector may have other properties , values that escape the restriction of its abstract
...
Marx's interest in the abstract social relations of 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 ...
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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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