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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... democracy demonstrations is recorded and relayed around the world , it will always take place in the present tense ... democracy move- ment , " were a strange and quixotic series of events . Even naming the move- ment , if it was a ...
... democracy as the will of the people expressed formally - democracy as the power of the people ex- pressed directly , in the streets , appears positively undemocratic . The politics of the event , of an unstable management of forces day ...
... democracy can be only a vague aspiration under a regime that inculcates quite other values , prac- tices , and norms . Anyway , many urban intellectuals would certainly not countenance the idea of a " democracy " that extended the ...