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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These stories have an improvised quality . They are not all necessarily
compatible with each other . They are an attempt to recover an art of serious
writing which takes as its starting point the cultural and political temporalities of
everyday life .
It enjoins us rather to attempt to create a fresh art of writing speculatively about
what lies beyond the routine boundaries forced upon us by the academic division
of labor , by the self - evident correctness of uncritical moralisms , by the banality
...
Is there still a place in this brave , bloody new world for a kind of critical writing ? If
so , what kind and ... All I can say is that I tried to write these pages under a
steadily increasing overhang of doubt about precisely this . We no longer have
roots ...
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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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