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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... fall of the wall to see the crisis of conservative thought at work . The ridiculous charge that the whole of left - wing opinion is condemned by the fall of the East is nothing more than a flip - flopped version of the old Communist ...
... fall in a second more than it used to fall in a week . Unable to play the voice of the one supposed to know , the news resorted to superlative and apocalypse : The biggest disaster in its class since 1929. Does it mean the end of ...
... ( Fall 1987 ) . 11. Virilio , Speed and Politics , p . 135 . 12. William E. Burrows , Deep Black ( London : Bantam , 1988 ) . 13. D. E. Ayling , The Internationalisation of Stockmarkets , Gower Studies in Finance and Investment no . 1 ...