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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... move- ment , " were a strange and quixotic series of events . Even naming the move- ment , if it was a movement , prejudices the story : was it a democracy move- ment , a student movement , or a protest movement ? In their anthology of ...
... move the same way , but it's flat and grainy . At some level the image is false . At some level it ceases to be like Gorbachev . Let's say you and your pal Gorbachev go and check out the wonders of the new virtual reality media at the ...
Living with Global Media Events McKenzie Wark. search of lower overheads , firms move to low wage or low tax states , or close their plants in the U.S. altogether and move production offshore . All of these methods may for the individual ...