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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... exist , in rumor , in jokes , in modes of speech , in memory , and have a presence on both map and territory . Media vec- tors are never free of this ambiguous residue of heteronomous potential . They too find themselves colonized by a ...
... exists to present this sublime and inef- fable other as if it came with a built - in point of view which matches our sense of scale and proportion . The stories , the statistics , the analyses , the models — all exist to render human ...
... exist . Positive feedback loops can and do occur with the potential to repeat and amplify a signal till the circuit breaks , which is exactly what happened when the stock market crashed . Both the stock market crash and the Tiananmen ...