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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One keeps the 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 ...
Rather , the gap between the sense of space and self formed on the map and the
sense of place and self forged on the territory caused a playing of the Western
map against the Eastern map , in which the Western map was misrecognized as
...
Different in the sense that it articulates privatized , alien experiences as if they
were typical , shared experiences . The SDP networked together the private
experience of many people , separated by the territory , by social convention , by
the ...
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| Title | Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events Arts and politics of the everyday Indiana University International Studies |
| Authors | McKenzie Wark, Wark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0253363497, 9780253363497 |
| Length | 252 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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