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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... appears as quoted speech , actively assumed into the monologic voice.29 The real winner here is the power of the vector , a power that appears to have vanquished the Iraqis and did ; which appears under the control of the presi- dent ...
... appears differently depending on from where one sees it . One never grasps it in its totality , one grasps only a ... appears to have goals . ( And note that I said appears to have goals . ) The forces and relations of communication ...
... appears in the trajectory of the vector : a rhizome of pure , abstracted interrelationality . What if the vector becomes so ubiq- uitous that every point becomes mobile , and every point becomes potentially in- terconnected with every ...