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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... broadcast media have greatly in- creased the spatial reach and tempo of communication , without a correspond- ing intensification of the temporal anchor of the monumental . The emphasis the East German regime put on the careful ...
... broadcast all over the country to catch movement or- ganizers on the lam . So on the one hand , the regime hauled footage from global broadcast vectors and used it within the space of Beijing to get their man ; and they used footage ...
... broadcast age , rather than the brave new world many took it for at the time of the Gulf war . The interconnection of the spaces of broadcast tele- vision vectors is far from complete , and there will be many more ruptures as it breaks ...