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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... become abstract , in the sense that they had to become uniform , equivalent , and interchangeable . The more abstract a product can become , the more readily it can be traded . Significantly , futures markets first developed for ...
... becomes abstract and quantitative ; its useful , sensuous qualities become separated from its quantitative value ; it begins to move in a space of pure movement , that which tends to become the world market . The separation of the sign ...
... becomes so ubiq- uitous that every point becomes mobile , and every point becomes potentially in- terconnected with every other point ? What will become of us ? This is the goal that appears in spite of itself and in spite of the ...