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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... human rights groups in the appalling conditions her husband was held in- suffering from untreated hepatitis in solitary confinement for months on end . Editorials in the New York Times and the Wall Street 124 Virtual Geography.
... York , actualizing the spatial possibilities embedded in the granite - hard grid of the city . In this way , the walker “ makes them exist as well as emerge . But he also moves them about and invents others , since the crossing ...
... York : Zone Books , 1988 ) . Deleuze's thinking takes the form of a reading of the first chapter of Henri Bergson , Matter and Memory ( New York : Zone Books , 1991 ) . See also the two volumes on cinema , cited elsewhere . 43. Donna J ...