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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... stock market crashes . Indeed , the October 1987 crash was perhaps the ninth or tenth on Wall Street since 1929.3 ... Market - makers are intensely familiar with what happened this morning or last night on other markets , back over the ...
... Stock markets always live in the shadow of the big central banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Ger- man ... market would have come down - there were enough indi- cators pointing to the end of the bull market to cause a slump on ...
... market information comes to cover the territory , the latter when it supplants the territory and subordinates it to the map . The stock market and the futures market take the form of a classic open out- cry market . Vectoral ...