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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... live , while prerecorded Saddam beamed in from Iraqi TV.33 When a diplomatic letter can take three days from out tray to in tray , why not go live on CNN and blast off a diplomatic retort and a propaganda release for the public at the ...
... live on , in memory , for the next time . The Supreme People's Court declares the movement " counterrevolutionary . " Mayor Chen Xitong broadcasts the first of many appeals for people to surren- der and undergo " repentance and self ...
... live our workaday lives may end up hurtling over the vector , into the mind's eye of others we shall never know : our unknown neighbors under a television sky . For example , take the way Gorbachev appeared in Beijing . Not the " real ...