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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... political pastors any more than to the pastoral social realism of the party's crook ideology , but were freely grazing on the spec- tacle cultivated in the West . They followed the loaded star of television through the looking - glass ...
... political force . The working class has many grievances , especially against erratic economic " reforms " that lead ... political culture as it is of politics per se . This is a polity with plenty of police but without a polis . It lacks ...
... political culture . In May and April 1989 the students managed to turn the monumental power of Tiananmen Square and the moral force of Communist ideology against itself , and managed to plug the staging of their demonstrations into the ...