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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... spectacle , but this spectacle is a double one . One is the external spec- tacle on our TV screens of the breach in the wall , the champagne spray , the pickaxe chipping the old wall away . The other spectacle is the one that the East ...
... spectacle in the Weimar years ? In the West the spectacle is seductive - it elicits the subject's fascination in the transformation of material reality by capital . The media vector transmits the rhythms of capital to the subject in its ...
... Spectacle ( Detroit : Black and Red , 1983 ) . The sense of collective agency implied in this paragraph is of course ... Spectacle , epigram 31. Baudrillard develops the theme of the autonomous development of the map of the spectacle in ...