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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... square . A few thousand students march to the square and lay their wreaths for Hu Yaobang . This is the first " illegal " act : municipal authorities banned such marches after the 1987 demonstra- tions . The police look on , stepping in ...
... square and slash the tires , adding just a little more permanence to the interruption of the regular urban timetable . The students ' position hardens . Wang Dan and Wuer Kaixi can't persuasively argue for retreat against the ...
... square . At 4:30 A.M. the troops advance . Tanks crush the tents in the square , some of which hold the bodies of sleeping , exhausted students . The troops fire in the air when they reach the Monument to the People's Heroes . This ...