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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... party , from the party to the culture industry , met- anarratives persist , but the organizations they legitimate become progressively more banal , using the vector to legitimize their power in turn to offer eternal salvation , social ...
... party itself . The contradictions of second nature have found no terrain on which to become conscious of their interconnections , across the time and space of this last great modernizing empire . 14 May . Responding to the hunger strike ...
... party , neither are their forces outside the party strong enough to link with the forces that can affect the outcome now . The intellectual stratum has too much to lose from a frontal confrontation with the state . The Beijing ...