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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... forces in the Gulf becomes a model for the post - cold war style for the " spin control " of events themselves . After a brief period of confusion and bet - hedging , the networks trooped into the fray with a primetime primer on the geo ...
... forces . Chance and confusion exact their toll . Mud and sand slow the forces down . Communication breaks down amid the fear , the noise , the chaos . Yet in posing the problem as a critical contrast between an abstract map of the ...
... forces try at least to practice what Liu , ever the provocateur , has demanded.46 Chen Ziming , Wang Juntao , and ... forces outside the party strong enough to link with the forces that can affect the outcome now . The intellectual ...