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Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events
McKenzie Wark
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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—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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Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Series
Arts & Politics of the Everyday
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
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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 moreAustralian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National. Show Less
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 moreby the convergence of mediated flows of information—virtual geography. She does not condemn this third reality, but instead establishes the grounds for a new form of cultural studies that follows the contours of the media event and does not force the event into existing disciplines. The author's capacity to grasp and interpret these 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. Her language at first seems forced and contrived as she pours out abstract and speculative explanations of vectors, nature, telethesia, etc. However, in the end she comes close to making the linearity of print project a world of global electronic information in which traditional modes of rationality are inadequate to explain what happens when information passes out of the orbit of one community into another. She demonstrates that the unstoppable rush of electronic information not only makes everything in the world knowable, but also carries with it the possibility of disinformation and discontrol. Recommended for upper—division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections.
R. Cathcart
Choice
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