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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A more radical approach to the problems emerging out of the intricate traceries
left in everyday life by the vectors of information flow is the cultural studies
pioneered at Birmingham by Stuart Hall and others . Cultural studies started with
the ...
achievements that subaltern groups have managed on very slight material
resources . Now , there is nothing so terribly wrong with a cultural studies which
takes the powerless as its subject , its object of study , and sometimes quite
literally - its ...
The interconnection of the spaces of broadcast television vectors is far from
complete , and there will be many more ruptures as it breaks down old cultural
and political boundaries . The postbroadcast age introduces something new ,
however .
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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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