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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They selectively replace the heavy walls and barriers that compartmentalized
information in days when vectors were less rapid and less effective . This cruder
narrative structure can be applied to more sudden and diverse events to produce
...
Their statements were always a little less and a little more than “ representative ”
views . “ It's unfathomable , ” according to a fifty - one - year - old man . “ I can't
believe I'm here , ” says an elderly East Berliner . “ This is what we have dreamed
...
As such technology spreads and interlocks , the movement of liquidity becomes
more and more tied to the vector and to third nature , less and less to the
cumbersome , slow - moving business of making things and selling them , which
both ...
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| Title | Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events Arts and politics of the everyday Indiana University International Studies |
| Authors | McKenzie Wark, Wark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1994 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2006 |
| ISBN | 0253363497, 9780253363497 |
| Length | 252 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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