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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... social forces of revolution and reaction transform social crisis into spatial struggle . As it happens , the rev- olutionary struggles of 1918-1919 were lost . Every vector has its limitations . The Spartacist uprising deployed the mass ...
... social democracy under the video rubble of the collapse of communism . In some respects , however , this event may have more to do with the historical trajectory of social democracy , and in particular the role social democracy plays in ...
... Social democracy partitioned social reality into discrete objects which it met with piecemeal solutions- Ebert's filing cabinet mentality at work ! For Tafuri's pessimist Marxism , the inescapable workings of the totality always impose ...