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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... studies , " which still takes the traditional " field man- agement " system of knowledge for granted and contents itself with wandering along its imaginary borders . A more radical approach to the problems emerging out of the intricate ...
... studies has with the subaltern , the most obvious reason for the lack of a discourse on the everyday life of the very rich is the difficulty of actually get- ting access to them . Practitioners of cultural studies have for the most part ...
... studies , if it is to have a future , has to speculate on what tendencies these developments represent , or at least that is what I have argued.45 46 One of the most interesting developments in cultural studies in recent years has been ...