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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... relation , corrupts it , and makes it manufacture more relations of abstraction . It is a form of viral relation which has a double aspect . It turns every qualitative and particular relation into a quantitative and universal one . It ...
... relation , a relation between flickering images cast by the firepower of the vector in the dark recesses of both Eastern and Western perception . This brings up the third and more difficult story that sometimes surfaced through the grid ...
... relation between the economic real and the increas- ingly abstracted space of third nature in which it appears in both its mundane and terrible forms . It would be a Marxist story precisely because it involves the relationship between ...