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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... military in effect manage two communication systems , their own and the global news net . Strangely enough , military prac- tices may be quite appropriate for both . Given that military training stresses both a precise , disciplined ...
... military enclosure , designed to protect the city from the then state of development of the military vector . The history of the relationship between military vectors and fortified cities like Berlin is a re- lationship between the ...
... military , in the interests of " order . " " Ebert has his beard trimmed , now looks more like a Chairman of the Board , and dresses accordingly , " as the dada artist George Grosz recalls.18 As that veteran of '68 Guy Debord says , the ...