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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... space and the more or less watertight vessels that used to contain meaning in space and time . As the Gulf war unfolded , the sacred space bled into the profane domain - of television . One keeps the sense of what it means to be in ...
... space of second nature comes increasingly to depend on the space of third nature , for it is within the vectors of the latter that territories , popula- tions , and resources are monitored and assessed . The more extensive and in ...
... space of the globe , and the central role of money , originally in the form of gold , in that process . Gold was the ... space of the nation - state . The era in which the nation - state acted as a crucial vehicle for the creation of an ...