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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From the church to the party , from the party to the culture industry ,
metanarratives persist , but the organizations they legitimate become
progressively more banal , using the vector to legitimize their power in turn to
offer eternal salvation ...
We can certainly feel the flaws in the relation between this industrializing society
of great complexity and the crude matrix of mediating vectors binding its dynamic
forces to the congealed vortex at the center of the party itself . The contradictions
...
It's not much of a linkage , but under the circumstances , it is a remarkable
achievement . Just as the students can't link up with the so - called liberal faction
within the party , neither are their forces outside the party strong enough to link
with ...
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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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