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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... less rapid and less effective . This cruder narrative structure can be applied to more sudden and diverse events to produce the same effect of apparent nar- rative seamlessness . The application by the media of simple temporal struc ...
... less organized , it seems . Even the populist narrative that claims to follow the moods and tempers and nightmares of the people is still a story after all . It is one which keeps one eye on its audi- ence and modifies its tale as it ...
... less and less to the cumbersome , slow - moving business of making things and selling them , which both debt and equity finance were originally designed to facilitate . The beneficiaries in manufacturing , it seems , are a handful of ...