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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... action and events , a similar problem appears in the news me- dia.22 It gets harder and harder to portray events as the outcome of the actions of either leaders or the masses . Time , as it appears on television , does not ap- pear to ...
... action . Both are actions which present no tangible result to the actor . They are actions which present an outcome purely as an index , a sign . They are actions which emanate from the body , but do not present the actor with a bodily ...
... action to stop the students from spontaneously self - organizing . “ This tur- moil is a planned conspiracy , " concludes paramount leader Deng Xiaoping . " We must quickly put an end to this turmoil . The more the Poles gave in , the ...