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 communication and substituting one's own , CCTV broadcasts a stage
...
The game of dialogue , where the participants collude to exclude the 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
.
Each event is a constellation of noise triggered by the logic bomb which hides
within the vector field itself . The vector is programmed in advance to crash , and
to reveal something of its structure and workings as it goes down . In any event ,
the ...
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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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