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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The vector must make this silent mass speak , and this is the role of public
opinion , of surveys and questionnaires and phone polls and the like . The
institutions that produce public opinion create an interlocking grid of
representations of the ...
Virilio goes on to add , “ The masses are not a population , a society , but the
multitude of passers - by . ... 17 The mass in this sense is a vector , a particular
mode of dispersal in a particular space — the movement of massed bodies in the
...
Living with Global Media Events McKenzie Wark, Wark. The CPC operates a dual
media system , composed of a mass broadcast and publishing system for the “
masses ” and a restricted vector field of media outlets , supposedly available only
...
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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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