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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... party , from the party to the culture industry , met- anarratives persist , but the organizations they legitimate become progressively more banal , using the vector to legitimize their power in turn to offer eternal salvation , social ...
... party line . The old men of the party remember all this only too well . As Deng Xiaoping said shortly after an earlier bout of small - scale student disturbances , “ During the ' cultural revolution ' we had what was called mass ...
... party in this relation , interfering in the understanding which parties to a di- alogue can have of each other . Hence the need to struggle to exclude the possibility of a third party , so that two parties may form a reciprocal image of ...