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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... crisis in such a ridiculous fashion . ... No reformer proclaiming new theses here , no general riding into the capital city at the head of tanks . No , this acute crisis has arisen as a result of the pop- ulation running away ; instead ...
... crisis over the catastrophe of communism , as it is a pillar of conservative thought that barbaric and totali- tarian regimes in the East are immune to the political vulnerabilities of regimes that are democratic or merely tyrannical.49 ...
... crisis , rather than a tangible standing reserve . When the future asserts its difference from the past , that is the crisis . When an event causes political time , with its storms and stresses , its deals and strug- gles , to intersect ...