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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... turning it to advantage . Some were inhuman hands . For the vector itself is a " player " now , only relatively un ... turn , we are watching Orientalism at work . As Said says : " One aspect of the electronic , post- modern world is ...
... turn the simulacrum of the event into memories of utopian quiverings , outside of history and thus not trapped in the past . Outside of time , and thus a reservoir for the future . Remember 2000 Listen , I call you all . Show your cards ...
... turn , each in turn affecting the trinity , each net then producing its meta - comment - a vector field looped around and around itself . The paradox here is that rather than suffer uncertainty caused by not know- ing what is going on ...