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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... story . Almost any kind of story will do , narrating al- most any kind of time : the time of journalism , of chronicle , of fable . This could be an ironic time , a moralizing time , a tragic time . So far I've tried a little of each ...
... story by the vector . The metanarrative that matters is that of the vector itself , the story of stories . In every blink of an image conveyed by the vector , there are hidden stories , not least about the vector itself . The sites from ...
... story . The problem with as indiscriminate a vector as broadcast TV and radio is that they make it very difficult to target specific stories to particular audiences . The " turmoil " story is most likely a warning to the workers and ...