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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... possible , and makes an " us " possible . The vector creates these shifting nodes of " us " and " them " that provide all of us with the trickster syntax of unexpected crossroads . As much as we may want to differentiate , the vector ...
... possible the projection of force around the globe make possible a perception of war which removes the bloody and visceral . American bomber pilots flew missions over Iraq with the heavy - metal music of Van Halen pumping through their ...
... possible to grasp the constellations of historical temporalities and forces that shape the dense matrix of the vector fields and the powers that move upon them . It may even be possible to specu- late on what unrealized potentials the ...