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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... Wall with heavy cranes , opening a crack in the wall at the center of old Berlin , the Potsdamer Platz . Thousands of East Berliners pour through the gap , across the site of the old Potsdamer Platz , once a busy and historic center of ...
... wall at all , as pictured . NBC chromakeyed his image together with live footage of the wall , and mixed sound recorded at the wall with his answers to the off - camera reporter's questions . The mayor was in a studio somewhere ...
... wall , no doubt about it , a physical con- straint on movement . But , as Timothy Garton Ash remarks , in the psychogeog- raphy of East Germany , on the specular map of places and spaces , " the Wall was not round the periphery of East ...