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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... second nature of labor and its accumulated products . Toni Negri writes , concerning this second nature : " Just as the ham- mer which forges the iron must be made of iron ; and the progressive movement of the ... second nature , by site 85.
... second nature , under the sway of the abstract form of capital , out into the world with a new intensity and into the last holdouts within the overdeveloped world itself . Both movements require an intensive and an extensive development ...
... second and third nature , has a temporal dimension . It is the forcing open of the gap between two temporalities . The valuations made within third nature of the various standing reserves is an anticipation based on a present assessment ...