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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... play of signs de- fines the anchorages of power ; it is not that the beautiful totality of the indi- vidual is ... played by the military technique , the technique of discipline , in cementing in place a spatial order within the city ...
... play true to type and refused to play to prewritten scripts . It is narrative form that makes subsequent moments of an event predictable based on previous moments . Uncertainty about the appropriate type of narra- tive form to apply to ...
... Play it all play it all play it all back . For all to see . In Times Square . In Piccadilly . -William Burroughs As I write this , there are some nervous officials in Beijing , China , and my home town of Sydney , Australia , waiting ...