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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... narrative management units presiding over the expanding vectors of Roosevelt's interventionist state , is just one example of the administration of the vector necessitated by industrialized war.11 The mobilization of the population of ...
... narrative frame was perhaps the easiest to pronounce upon but the most difficult to grasp in any meaningful way . While the television coverage did not trouble itself with the details of this shift in the balance of power , it did ...
... narrative frameworks as quickly as possible . Hence the narratives tend to be temporary affairs , if no less infused with hegemonic stories for all that . On the other hand , where the state has a monopoly on news , there may be no such ...