Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events

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Indiana University Press, 1994 - Social Science - 252 pages
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"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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Page 14
What is marginal within the empire can have imperial effects on its margins . On
the ... Even the odd effect of watching a breakfast TV news show like “ NBC
Today , ” retitled “ NBC News Overnight , ” can have a displacing effect . What I
am ...
Page 77
The sites from which every blink of an image is extracted are a reservoir of past
events , past accumulations of the developmental story of the vector ' s effects .
Sites like the Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer Platz are story accumulators ...
Page 211
This ratchet effect supposedly locks in gains , ensuring that stocks sell on the way
down at prices that are still higher than the ones the buyer paid for them on the
way up . In the crash , this ratchet effect seems simply to have increased the ...

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Contents

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seeds of fire
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About the author (1994)

McKENZIE WARK lectures in the Masters program in International Communications at Macquarie University. He co-edited flesh and Leftwright, and his essays on communication and culture have appeared in Cultural Studies, New Formations, New Statesman, Arena, Art & Text and Impulse. He is a columnist on cultural studies and higher education for The Australian newspaper and a regular broadcaster on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National.

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TitleVirtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events
Arts and politics of the everyday
Indiana University International Studies
AuthorsMcKenzie Wark, Wark
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherIndiana University Press, 1994
ISBN0253363497, 9780253363497
Length252 pages
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