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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... kind of experience , the expe- rience of telesthesia - perception at a distance . This is our " virtual geography , " the experience of which doubles , troubles , and generally permeates our expe- rience of the space we experience ...
... kind of vector , one kind of me- dia speed , said about the event in terms of another : the pictures and commentaries seen and heard in the daily press and on TV , mediated via the later and more con- sidered accounts provided by books ...
... kind . Foreign information might have some appeal simply in its dif- ference from the opaque wallpaper of Chinese ... kind of popular sentiment . Were both compet- ing stations to dismantle their ideological ramparts and compete as ...