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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... rational communication as the implicit ground which makes the rather less perfect communication in actual situations take place . But was this the case here ? Was this communication at all ? Were it conceivable that the real was rational ...
... rational response for an individual to the overall information picture might not be a rational response if everyone else acts the same way . Ra- tionality exists in the flow of time and in relation to other acts and judgments , rational ...
... rational . " What is rational is real and what is real is rational " seems to be the philosophy here , still . The efficient market theorists may want to believe that , but for everyone else who watched the crash on TV , " what is good ...