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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... seems able to keep the prying eyes of anthropologists out forever . No infamous slum seems able to keep the sociologists at bay for long . No subculture is too ob- scure and fleeting not to attract the attention of cultural studies ...
... seems sometimes beyond even the cor- porate subjects who occupy its surface . Most pundits agreed that computerized trading was a subsidiary cause of the October crash . Around 20 percent of the trading on Black Monday was pro- gram ...
... seems to overdetermine the space and autonomy of the subject of capital . The vector seems to automate capital no less than the labor process au- tomates labor . Yet the former remains even more of a mystery than the latter , given the ...