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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... third nature . This third nature finds its most his- torically effective form in television , at least at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall . In postwar West Germany , the struggle over the production of power had occupied this ...
... third nature itself . The maintenance of private interest require its ever more thorough dehumanization . The space of second nature comes increasingly to depend on the space of third nature , for it is within the vectors of the latter ...
... third nature , has a temporal dimension . It is the forcing open of the gap between two temporalities . The valuations made within third nature of the various standing reserves is an anticipation based on a present assessment of the ...