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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The vector reconnects me to tiny fetish objects and signs , which in turn are
connected to experience and people . Telesthesia can be a form of pornography ,
as discussed at Site # 1 , or it may have empowering effects , as discussed at Site
...
Rather than a melancholy invocation of the tragedy of the voiceless , it may be
better in the age of CNN to find ways to turn the simulacrum of the event into
memories of utopian quiverings , outside of history and thus not trapped in the
past .
... the public news network . ( And that is perhaps also the hierarchy of their
speeds . ) An Iranian missile , an off - the - cuff remark by the U.S. treasurer –
each of these bits of information flies by each of the nets , affecting each in turn ,
each ...
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| Title | Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events Arts and politics of the everyday Indiana University International Studies |
| Authors | McKenzie Wark, Wark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1994 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2006 |
| ISBN | 0253363497, 9780253363497 |
| Length | 252 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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