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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... struggle over the production of power had occupied this terrain . One way of understanding the political struggles of the so - called young German film and new German cinema is as a struggle for third nature . The history films , and in ...
... struggle comes to be redoubled in a struggle of images . The image of the working class grows apart from it . It assumes a subordinate place in the diffuse spectacle of the West ; it assumed pride of place in the East . Either way it is ...
... struggle to articulate interests and demands . It needs an arena where the hegemonic and counterhegemonic forces can struggle to form a bloc of in- terests through a genuine and uncoerced leadership of political culture . The democracy ...