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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... abstract weird global media events too far out of the time of lived experience in everyday life in which we find ... abstract rela- tions . In particular , the abstract relations which create this appearance of sep- arateness as a fetish ...
... abstract , a communicational map exactly covering the territory of capi- tal , commodities themselves had to become abstract , in the sense that they had to become uniform , equivalent , and interchangeable . The more abstract a product ...
... abstract net- work of information strategies and decisions , " according to Castells , 30 and we are " no longer a society of sedentarization but one of passage " for Virilio . He concludes from this : " If in the 19th century the lure ...