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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... means of separation . Only in a separate vector field will a space open for a unification of the space divided by ... means of vision . The means of vision are “ matter transformed and reborn by imagination , and turned into an image ...
Living with Global Media Events McKenzie Wark. Wagner and others struggled over the means of social reproduction , Brecht and Benjamin attempted to theorize and participate in the struggle over the means of vision waged on the vector ...
... means for " drawing the dimensions of exchange over the whole world ; for creating the true generality of exchange ... means of communication and transport- become for the costs of circulation . Capital by its nature drives beyond every ...