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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... Noise is a sign of noise , and an efficient vector can distribute noise as the sign of noise far and wide . 29 April . Hewing to the principle of cutting off the enemy's vectors of com- munication and substituting one's own , CCTV ...
... noise of the " third , " has to be thought of as a game that occurs in time . This is not the abstract , logical time of analysis , but the rather more quixotic time of experience . Speeding up the dialogue and increasing the num- ber ...
... noise is the logic bomb within the sys- tem . The ethical question is whether noise is always necessarily a bad thing , or whether it has creative uses . The idea of a logic bomb is useful as a suggestive met- aphor for how complex ...