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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search of lower overheads , firms move to low wage or low tax states , or close
their plants in the U.S. altogether and move production offshore . All of these
methods may for the individual firm lower costs relative to output for a given
production ...
Productivity is sustained by using the resources of third nature to distribute
production around the globe , seeking out standing reserves of cheap but skilled
labor . The composition of production has changed in accord with this . Gone are
the ...
In fact , it is because of this abstraction , that it becomes such an enormous
instrument in the real development of the forces of social production . " 37 The
move from gold to paper money reinforced the boundaries of the national . Paper
money ...