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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... called it the " most sickening thing I have seen for some time . " Rupert Murdoch's English tabloid press dubbed Saddam Hussein the " Butcher of Baghdad . " The American State Department called this event " shameful theatricals . " A ...
... called young German film and new German cinema is as a struggle for third nature . The history films , and in particular the broadcast of critical films on television , were a struggle over the extraction of information out of second na ...
... called liberal faction within the party , neither are their forces outside the party strong enough to link with the forces that can affect the outcome now . The intellectual stratum has too much to lose from a frontal confrontation with ...