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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... creates enough contact be- tween places to create a sort of narrative prudence . Underneath , the assump- tions are much the same . One can , and must , critique such vile cultural presumptions , which is what Edward Said does.13 One ...
... creates of them . One of the most central vectoral movements is the rating of television audiences . As cultural studies scholar Ien Ang argues , the ratings institutions do not really measure " audience , " they create and manage an ...
... create an alternative vector field of wide scope and rapidity within which its supporters could be reached . The SDP used this vector field to report scandals and intrigues , creating a space for the play of media events and providing ...