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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... Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd called it the " most sickening thing I have seen for some time . " Rupert Murdoch's English tabloid press dubbed Saddam Hussein the " Butcher of Baghdad . " The American State Department called this event ...
... foreign sources are readily available . The openness to the flow of foreign information weakens the central control over the flow of domestic information . In saying this , one does not have to subscribe to the myth that the Western ...
... Foreign Languages Press , 1987 ) , p . 170 . 6. Paul Virilio , Speed and Politics , Semiotext ( e ) Foreign Agents Series ( New York , 1986 ) , p . 33 . 7. Harrison Salisbury , Tiananmen Diary : Thirteen Days in June ( London : Unwin ...