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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... particular site and out of a very particular culture within the matrix of an emergent virtual geography . Sydney poststructuralism at its best was a response to a certain experience of globalization , if not a ter- ribly conscious one ...
... particular mode of dispersal in a particular space - the movement of massed bodies in the street , or the street brought to a halt . The revolutionary barricade is also a tactic in the war of the vector , and revolutionary insurrec ...
... particular use values of Marx , his famous coats and yards of linen , had a second , abstract aspect as exchange values . They had not only a law of equivalence and exchange that made them commensurable but also a physical realization ...