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 military in effect manage two communication systems , their own and the
global news net . Strangely enough , military practices may be quite appropriate
for both . Given that military training stresses both a precise , disciplined
execution of ...
The Achtek was designed in 1737 as part of the Prussian monarchy's expansion
of Berlin . * Building on the administrative and military success of the absolute
monarchy , Berlin was to grow a new , rationally planned and executed wing .
Outflanked in the streets , Friedrich Ebert and the social democratic “ government
” reached a modus vivendi with the military , in the interests of " order . ” “ Ebert
has his beard trimmed , now looks more like a Chairman of the Board , and ...
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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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