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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... critical theory makes as much use of American vectoral power as its enemies . The massive presence in the media flow of American stories , images , faces , voices , is sometimes all that stabilizes the flow of meaning in the global ...
... critical analysis has pulled apart from the subjective end.75 In the blinding shell - burst of the event , a critical eye can see critical conjunc- tions of objects and images , oddly grouped together , and frozen in an arc of impetuous ...
... critical theory , Clausewitz analyzes war first in the pure potenti- alities of its unleashed vectors , freed of all material impediments . “ Thus rea- soning in the abstract , the mind cannot stop short of an extreme , because it has ...