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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... perhaps as many as one million . SATEL- LITES REACH HEAVEN BUT DEMOCRACY IS STUCK IN HELL reads the banner of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences . " The time will come when we will cleave through the waves , " write some ...
... Perhaps the animal spirits of capital flag sometimes . Perhaps magic thinking is not entirely banished among them . Who can tell ? Most disturbing of all , perhaps they are no longer in control . Perhaps the process via which control of ...
... perhaps cutting the sale of American goods to Germany and worsening the trade deficit ; perhaps con- tributing to a more general slowdown in the world economy , affecting the Amer- ican economy also . Perhaps this would slow the rate at ...