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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... regime , not bargaining with the forces for change within a regime which might still be at the crossroads , which might still have a path into the future . It is not Chai Ling's personal fatalism which is the problem here . She em ...
... regime took place on exactly the same site as the demonstrations the regime used to orga- nize in its own honor , such as the giant cultural revolution - era rallies , drilled and organized for days in advance.24 But where serried ranks ...
... regime of disinformation . The party and Marxism are the sources of au- thority which ground the narrative in the present moment . The latter two are broadly diachronic . The socialist road and the present stage on that road , the ...