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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... connection to the emergent cultural forms and norms it was designed as a response to in the first place . Let the dead bury the dead . The problem is the living of this fabulous and eerie new life with all its pleasures and dangers . In ...
... connected the " Middle " East to almost all points in the Western world - even if the vector - brokers of the " Far " East ... connection— everyone and everything is a potential object and / or subject of a mediated re- lation , realized ...
... connection between capital and the vector is a self - evident and everyday reality . The con- crete , immaterial reality of the vector becomes a technology only too appropri- ate for the abstract principle of money . The stock market ...