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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... flow of American stories , images , faces , voices , is sometimes all that stabilizes the flow of meaning in the global media net . Take away America's imaginary domination and the domination of the imaginary of America , and meaning ...
... flow . One must think dialectically about the vector . Which is to say , one must make use of it . One must make use of things like CNN , and one must make use of things like Heidegger . CNN is a tool for figuring out what to do with ...
... flow of electronic values circu- lating in third nature relative to what takes place in second nature , then the side game of trading abstractly the values of third nature against each other will suddenly come crashing to the ground ...