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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... tion is above all a struggle to control movement in a given territory . Through the struggle to block and unblock movement , the social forces of revolution and reaction transform social crisis into spatial struggle . As it happens ...
... tion of a falling dollar , rising world interest rates , and a US recession . " 42 The problem is that there is no easy way to quantify the impact of news informa- tion on markets . News information either increases uncertainty or ...
... tion vectors simply increases the scale and scope of the events crashing through it , then the globalization of financial markets appears far less attractive . Hence the insistence by many that the crash was a " correction , " not a ...