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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... effects on its margins . On the margins , the enormous flow of information in the vector field appears always as something ... effect . What I am talking about here is mobilizing as a means of critical orientation the feeling which every ...
... effect of for- tification.5 Up to a certain stage in the development of the military vector , the fortification was an adequate response . It was indeed possible to absorb the impact of the vector . It was once possible to resist the ...
... effect seems simply to have increased the volume of shares that the programs tried to unload as prices fell . The ... effects of complex interactions — particularly the in- teractions of a program with the actions of other programs . As ...