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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... street , or the street brought to a halt . The revolutionary barricade is also a tactic in the war of the vector , and revolutionary insurrec- tion is above all a struggle to control movement in a given territory . Through the struggle ...
... Street dates perhaps from Wednesday , 14 Octo- ber . This was when the Commerce Department announced the latest trade deficit figures . These showed a small decline in America's trade deficit vis - à - vis the rest of the world , but ...
... Street Jour- nal , 11 January 1988 . 22. Hyman Minsky , Stabilizing an Unstable Economy ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1986 ) . 23. Adorno , Minima Moralia , p . 122 . 24. Marx , " Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts , " p ...