What makes globalization even possible in the first place? One answer would be that it requires the regularization of some kind of media and communication infrastructure. When you have that, you might get globalized economic trade within some political or imperial framework, but it is likely you'll get transnational cultural flows as well. Globalizing trade can lead to a cosmopolitan culture, but also to all sorts of nationalistic or racist or patriarchal reactions to those as breaches of imaginary communities.
Trump appears to some as too simulated, too much a spectacle. But all authorized politics is spectacle. He just does it in a different style. It's no… - Mckenzie Wark
Trump appears to some as too simulated, too much a spectacle. But all authorized politics is spectacle. He just does it in a different style. It's no…
- Mckenzie Wark
You can trace a through-line from the eighties to the present, and in retrospect Trump was always one of the minor avatars of a certain business mode… - Mckenzie Wark
You can trace a through-line from the eighties to the present, and in retrospect Trump was always one of the minor avatars of a certain business mode…
In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, tha… - Mckenzie Wark
In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, tha…
Language is always ambivalent. Its forms mutate and connect in unexpected ways. It's hard to instrumentalize language. But I think it's better to exp… - Mckenzie Wark
Language is always ambivalent. Its forms mutate and connect in unexpected ways. It's hard to instrumentalize language. But I think it's better to exp…
I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to take media as form. It might grow out … - Mckenzie Wark
I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to take media as form. It might grow out …
We no longer have roots, we have aerials. - Mckenzie Wark
We no longer have roots, we have aerials.
What makes globalization even possible in the first place? One answer would be that it requires the regularization of some kind of media and communic… - Mckenzie Wark
What makes globalization even possible in the first place? One answer would be that it requires the regularization of some kind of media and communic…
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