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Antipodality

Antipodality We are no-one. Just whites, marooned in the East by history. David Ireland Hell is truth seen too late. G.WJ. Hegel I what do I know? here is quite a particular view of culture Tand the world that comes with growing up by the sea. Since this is an essay about how media technologies have remade the sur- face of the world in general and about how mckenzie wark one might grasp this from a particular van- tage point, it seems appropriate to start by the sea. In the house I grew up in, a model ship took pride of place on the mantle. It was a model of the Cutty Sark, one of the greatest of the clipper ships. It's nothing but a brand of whisky now. case, tries to find some resonance still in the I went to China once. I went to the idea of the local. We are not a "global vil- Shanghai museum to look at the classical lage" yet, and may never be. I think I can paintings. There's not much to see there. But say that "we" are subjected to these particu- there is a model of the Cutty Sark. Its lar http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

Antipodality

Wark, McKenzie
Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities , Volume 2 (3): 11 – Jan 1, 1997
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Antipodality

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We are no-one. Just whites, marooned in the East by history. David Ireland Hell is truth seen too late. G.WJ. Hegel I what do I know? here is quite a particular view of culture Tand the world that comes with growing up by the sea. Since this is an essay about how media technologies have remade the sur- face of the world in general and about how mckenzie wark one might grasp this from a particular van- tage point, it seems appropriate to start by the sea. In the house I grew up in, a model...
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Abstract

We are no-one. Just whites, marooned in the East by history. David Ireland Hell is truth seen too late. G.WJ. Hegel I what do I know? here is quite a particular view of culture Tand the world that comes with growing up by the sea. Since this is an essay about how media technologies have remade the sur- face of the world in general and about how mckenzie wark one might grasp this from a particular van- tage point, it seems appropriate to start by the sea. In the house I grew up in, a model ship took pride of place on the mantle. It was a model of the Cutty Sark, one of the greatest of the clipper ships. It's nothing but a brand of whisky now. case, tries to find some resonance still in the I went to China once. I went to the idea of the local. We are not a "global vil- Shanghai museum to look at the classical lage" yet, and may never be. I think I can paintings. There's not much to see there. But say that "we" are subjected to these particu- there is a model of the Cutty Sark. Its lar

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