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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... Tiananmen Square form a significant expression of the experimental search for just such a political culture . In May and April 1989 the students managed to turn the monumental power of Tiananmen Square and the moral force of Communist ...
... Tiananmen site and the spatial con- figuration of bureaucratic power , one finds the monstrous traces of the insom- nia of a certain modern form of reason . This is the ratio of the boundary , the partition , the hierarchy , the ...
... Tiananmen ( London : Longman , 1990 ) . 49. Han Minzhu , Cries for Democracy , p . 327 . 50. Ibid . , p . 314 . 51. Hou Dejian , " Heirs of the Dragon , " in Barmé and Jaivin , New Ghosts , Old Dreams , p . 153 . 52. Jimmy Ngai Siu ...