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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... demonstrations in the heart of Beijing continue . This is more than a demonstration by workers and students , it is a carnival . For a few intense , electric seconds , Beijing has become the only city on earth , oscillating in a thrall ...
... demonstration against the policies and practices of the regime took place on exactly the same site as the demonstrations the regime used to orga- nize in its own honor , such as the giant cultural revolution - era rallies , drilled and ...
... demonstrations depends very much on the power within the apparatus of the personality who acts as its sponsor - or at least it has until now . Unicorporate regimes seem to lend themselves perfectly to the ironic mode of writing- and for ...