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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... global circulation of that image of Saddam Hussein stroking Stuart Lockwood . Proximity to a hub in the vector field is the first factor in its circulation . Its news value is the second . Cultural studies essayist John Hartley suggests ...
... global , there is a greater and greater need for international information to create the image of an international econ- omy , so that the real underlying global economy can be known and acted upon . There is also an increasingly ...
... Global Stock Market Reforms , p . 18 . 22. Adrian Hamilton , The Financial Revolution ( Harmondsworth : Penguin , 1986 ) , p . 43 ; Stonham , Global Stock Market Reforms , pp . 45-48 . 23. The Face , no . 91 ( November 1987 ) , p . 37 ...