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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... hand in hand with a deregulation of information flows and attacks on public control and access to information.25 The media that feed us are not only more and more concentrated , but increasingly global in both ownership and extent ...
... hand , Iraq wants to appear as a leader in the third world , yet on the other it seeks and gets Western assistance in the war against Iran . On the one hand Iraq wants to appear as the champion of secular development in the region , yet ...
... hand . The world of objects is vast and complicated and beyond my control ; the world of images is vast and complicated , but at least I can make what I want out of them . We do not experience the world anymore in the guise of things ...