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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... crash was not a response to an impending recession , be- cause no such recession was likely . Now the crash has occurred , one might be . " In the illogic of this relation can be glimpsed a separation of some peculiar kind between the ...
... crash was a " correction , " not a freefall or a meltdown . Correction implies an error in an otherwise rational communica- tion of messages . The bull market is thus seen as a correct tendency which just overshot the mark a bit , and ...
... Crash , " Wall Street Jour- nal , 11 January 1988 . 22. Hyman Minsky , Stabilizing an Unstable Economy ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1986 ) . 23. Adorno , Minima Moralia , p . 122 . 24. Marx , " Economic and Philosophical ...