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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... field of wide scope and rapidity within which its supporters could be reached . The SDP used this vector field to report scandals and intrigues , creating a space for the play of media events and ... vector . As the vector spreads site 83.
... vector field of third nature will not stop there . Alexander Kluge , the Clausewitz of critical German media , became a " proprietor of time " as he describes it , on a satellite channel called SAT 1.32 As the vector proceeds into orbit ...
... vector flow , cultures come to perceive themselves not only as distinct from images of the other , but as distinct from what is most distant of all , from the vector field itself . A culture can come to perceive its difference from ...