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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... going down because it's going down , " says analyst Newton Zinder to Time , as if speaking about the weather or the wheel of fortune . Meanwhile in Zürich " a speechless crowd stands , gaping at the Reuters monitor as if they were at ...
... going to increase interest rates . This would slow down the German economy , perhaps cutting the sale of American goods to Germany and worsening the trade deficit ; perhaps con- tributing to a more general slowdown in the world economy ...
... going and going , be it up or down . It is also meant to prevent the market from trying to move faster than the technology can handle . There is an absolute limit to the speed at which a market can work , determined by how quickly the ...