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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... experience , the expe- rience of telesthesia - perception at a distance . This is our " virtual geography , " the experience of which doubles , troubles , and generally permeates our expe- rience of the space we experience firsthand ...
... experiences of the relation between intimate experience and the public sphere , buried out there in popular culture . Perhaps it is only intellectuals who feel so estranged from the flow of information in mass - media vectors . After ...
... experience . " The extraordinary quantitative expansion of war plays a qualitatively new role , bringing with it an extraordinary broadening of hori- zons . " 40 War in turn begat the development of the vectors of movement and ...