Telesthesia: Communication, Culture and Class

by McKenzie Wark

Book Overview

The telegraph, telephone, and television, not to mention the Internet and mobile telephony, are all forms of communication that move information faster than the speed at which objects move. Both labor and capital and armies and commodities once moved at the same speed as the information organizing them. Over the last two centuries, social space has developed a strange folded quality, where physical space comes more and more to be doubled by a space...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745653995
• ISBN13: 9780745653990
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"