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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... organized temporally in terms of " visible , distant visions of order , " but where these are highlighted negatively by " the fundamental test of news- worthiness , " namely , " disorder - deviation from any supposed steady state ...
... organized by the Social Democratic Party , or counterrevolution organized by corps of Brown Shirts , this one lacked a social force motivating it , " on the ground " or " at the grass roots , " as the usual expressions would have it ...
... organized , validated , and effected . Ironically , it also requires their automation . As the enchanted world grows ... organize . People appear here as a resource and risk not only of production , but also of consumption . We appear as ...