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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... communication . The global media vector does not connect us with just anywhere . It connects us most frequently , rapidly , and economically with those parts of the world which are well integrated into the major hubs of the vector ...
... communication as the implicit ground which makes the rather less perfect communication in actual situations take place . But was this the case here ? Was this communication at all ? Were it conceivable that the real was rational and the ...
... communication order strives to be transparent at the top of the hierarchy , and opaque at the bottom . Information ... communication , but within the spaces commanded . Unicorporate communications were inward - looking , at least until ...