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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... sense of what it means to be in public life as opposed to private life by keeping them spatially separate . Haraway argues that technology destabilizes certain distinctions . Masculine power keeps itself apart in its imaginary from the ...
... sense of place forms , that sense of place now takes place on two planes : map and territory . The connection between these coterminous planes of map and territory is narrative . Stories dominate the maps of both East and West , stories ...
... sense compose an equivalent to a " public sphere . " The sense of belonging and becoming articu- lated in the abstracted space of the vector isn't the same as the sense of belong- ing in a public meeting , a crowd , an assembly , a ...