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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... exchange values . They had not only a law of equivalence and exchange that made them commensurable but also a physical realization of this potential in the vector space of transport and dis- play . Benjamin's fascination was with use ...
... exchange anymore , the exchange still has a role to play in setting prices for those who trade " off the floor , " on their screens . The exchange itself thus passes from a market to an image of a market , on which buyers , sellers ...
... exchange value in substance and in extension . " The movement of capital in the form of gold was an abstract flow ... exchange value , hence on exchange , the more important do the physical conditions of exchange- the means of ...