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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28 Rather , the vector allows each side to exploit images that come from the other
in a narrative framework which ... More precisely , the guarantee of “ our ” identity
comes not from “ our ” intrinsic qualities , nor from our difference from the other ...
None comes . Silence begets not silence , but more noise to fill the void . The
students try opening a dialogue with the state . They refuse to abide by the more
usual procedure of the petition . The petition leaves time on the government ' s
side .
This transference of all perceptions from one state to another can come from any
of the particular flows which cross the screen of third ... There is a philosophical
aspect to crises - they are when the meaning of value itself comes into question .
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| Title | Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events Arts and politics of the everyday Indiana University International Studies |
| Authors | McKenzie Wark, Wark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0253363497, 9780253363497 |
| Length | 252 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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