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Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events

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Description for Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events Paperback. Cultural studies at the intersections of global media and everyday life: the Gulf War, the Beijing massacre, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the stock market crash of 1987. Series: Arts & Politics of the Everyday. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.

"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." ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Arts & Politics of the Everyday
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253208941
SKU
V9780253208941
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About McKenzie Wark
McKENZIE WARK lectures in the Masters program in International Communications at Macquarie University. He co-edited flesh and Leftwright, and his essays on communication and culture have appeared in Cultural Studies, New Formations, New Statesman, Arena, Art & Text and Impulse. He is a columnist on cultural studies and higher education for The Australian newspaper and a regular broadcaster on the ... Read more

Reviews for Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events
Wark describes and critiques the global media information flow that made the Persian Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and the Black Monday stock market crash of 1987 part of everyday experience. She calls this phenomenon telethesia. This is a new geography: we are everywhere in the world at once, a place constructed entirely ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events


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