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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... University students and several thousand People's University students set off from campus for the square . Some want to stay all morning to make sure their wreaths and posters are not removed . What to do now ? Some start to drift away ...
... University Press , 1981 ) , p . 172 . 39. The coverage of the war in Far Eastern Economic Review is a good index of Asian opinion during the event . See " Impact on Asia : Once This Lousy War Is Over ... , " cover story , vol . 151 , no ...
... University of Cali- fornia Press , 1988 ) , p . 98 . 31. Dong Liming , " Beijing : The Development of a Socialist Capital , " in Victor Sit , Chinese Cities ( Hong Kong : Oxford University Press , 1988 ) . 32. For selections of texts ...