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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... global media events revel in their weirdness at the point where noise overwhelms the codes and narrative strategies meant to exclude it . Virtual Geography is a book oriented toward the future : the future of culture under the impact of ...
... global in scope , and exceed the bounds of any particular national culture and hegemonic class order . If one starts from everyday life , as cultural studies did , from the experience of an ever - shifting combination of dominant ...
... global.40 It directly engaged the interest of the viewing , listening , reading , information - rich millions . The hostages were " ours , " and " they " were holding them . " They " had invaded some little country , and " they " were ...