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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One has only to cast an eye over the strenuous tirades against the left mounted
by cold war conservatives since the fall of the wall to see the crisis of
conservative thought at work . The ridiculous charge that the whole of left - wing
opinion is ...
ll The media were largely incapable of grasping the significance of a market that
could rise in a month more than it used to rise in a year . They were rendered
quite insensate by one that could fall in a second more than it used to fall in a
week .
Stonham , Global Stock Market Reforms , p . 19 . 26. Ken Auletta , Greed and
Glory on Wall St : The Fall of the House of Lehman ( Harmondsworth : Penguin ,
1986 ) , p . 53. Cf. Jeff Madrick , Marrying for Money ( London : Bloomsbury , 1987
) .
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| Title | Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events Arts and politics of the everyday Indiana University International Studies |
| Authors | McKenzie Wark, Wark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1994 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2006 |
| ISBN | 0253363497, 9780253363497 |
| Length | 252 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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