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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... East could suddenly spend their cash reserves on Western goods and look ... German phone system . It is from the matrix of vectors that integration , on ... German history . After all , it was the discovery of an East German agent on his ...
... East German regime tried so desperately to put in its place . Stefan Heym , an East German novelist , published for the most part in the West , summed up this massed wall - jump thus : " Never before in the history of mankind has a ...
... East German government lifted restrictions on travel to the West today . Within hours , tens of thousands of East Germans had swarmed across the Berlin Wall , experiencing that tiny piece of the West in the East known as West Berlin ...