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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... problem with George Bush . The latter kept leaping out of helicopters , giving press conferences , searching for the narrative threads that could connect him and his office to some course of action that appeared to make sense . As he ...
... problem with Pierre Bourdieu's concept of " habi- tus . " It maps territory but forgets itself in the operation . It forgets that social scientists , like everybody else , live in territories . Some territories are weak and defenseless ...
... problem of noise , the third party , as more significant than the problem of the other , who appears in communication as the second party . The other allows a sub- ject to form in relation to it , it allows an identity which can say " I ...