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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... writing which takes as its starting point the cultural and political temporalities of everyday life . I read Karl Marx , An- tonio Gramsci , and Walter Benjamin as doing exactly that — writing out of the conjuncture . I don't claim to ...
... writing spec- ulatively about what lies beyond the routine boundaries forced upon us by the academic division of labor , by the self - evident correctness of uncritical moral- isms , by the banality of the relentless accumulation in our ...
... Writing along the line of the vector , one deals less with the object of a media event than with its trajectory . In the place of a content analysis or a semiotic interpretation , I look at relationality itself.74 The object of analysis ...