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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... economic diplomacy . " As much as they may resent it , mar- kets and market players still operate in an environment where state institutions make many of the rules and can powerfully affect the totality of economic move- ments through ...
... economic real , it does not in itself enable us to see what by its very nature cannot be seen . The economic real is something terrible and sublime , vast and godless . The enchanted world of economic calculation and storytelling exists ...
... economy itself are becoming more transparent and ubiquitous . This is not necessarily so , because the apparently universal map of the economy on the surface of third nature is not equivalent to the economic real itself . It is some ...