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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... production offshore . All of these methods may for the individual firm lower costs relative to output for a given production technique , thus improving productivity , but they have an adverse effect on aggregate demand . Pushing down ...
... production around the globe , seeking out standing reserves of cheap but skilled labor . The composition of production has changed in accord with this . Gone are the great mass markets of the West . In their place , products must be ...
... production . " 37 The move from gold to paper money reinforced the boundaries of the na- tional . Paper money thus appears as a transitional moment . Paper money was more abstract in its form , more tied to the territorial space of the ...