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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... masses as consum- ers , as a quantity of corneas . This mass of captured corneas , which one might call the TV eye in honor of Iggy Pop , is a nominal creation with very real eco- nomic effects . The agglomerated TV eye is a commodity ...
... mass in this sense is a vec- tor , a particular mode of dispersal in a particular space - the movement of massed bodies in the street , or the street brought to a halt . The revolutionary barricade is also a tactic in the war of the ...
... mass broadcast and publishing system for the " masses " and a restricted vector field of media out- lets , supposedly available only to the political elite . The ideal form of narrative disinformation is more typical of the public media ...