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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... exist elsewhere . Needless to say , this book too is a part of that problematic , and does not exist outside , in a neutral space . It is in the worst of all possible worlds : within the regime of power created by the media vector , but ...
... exist some potential for the accidental contact and circulation of people . Michel de Certeau speaks of the walker in the city of New York , actualizing the spatial possibilities embedded in the granite - hard grid of the city . In this ...
... exists to present this sublime and inef- fable other as if it came with a built - in point of view which matches our sense of scale and proportion . The stories , the statistics , the analyses , the models - all exist to render human ...