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Biographical note: McKenzie Wark’s writing is “original and provocative … wide ranging, quirky and dextrous”, according to the Times Literary Supplement. The New Statesman described him as “A cross between Jean Baudrillard and John Pilger.” Choice declares that his “ability to provide insights into a world where unbounded information is circling the earth at the speed of light is startling.” He is the author of three previous books: Virtual Geography (Indiana University Press); The Virtual Republic (Allen & Unwin) and Celebrities, Culture and Cyberspace (Pluto Press). He teaches media and cultural studies at the New School University. For 9 years he was a columnist for The Australian newspaper, which made him a ‘lapsed Marxist in the pay of Rupert Murdoch’. His writings have also appeared in American Book Review, Bookforum, Jacket, The Literary Review, New Statesman, New Internationalist, Salt and a wide range of other publications. He lives at about 40.7 degrees North and 073.9 degrees West, aka Williamsburg, New York City. |
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BIC Basic
EAN13: 9781876857257
ISBN: 1876857250
Author: McKenzie Wark
Title: Dispositions
Series: Salt Modern Fiction
Product class: BC
Language: eng
Audience: General/trade
BIC subject category: CTK
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Pub date: 15/12/2002
Extent: 184pp
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight: 180 gms
Supplier: Bertram Books
Supplier: Gardners Books
Supplier: Ingram Book Company
Supplier: Baker & Taylor
Availability: IP
Price: GBP 9.95
Price: USD 16.95
Price: AUD 21.95
Price: CAD 18.95
Rights: World
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Short description/annotation: Armed only with a notebook and a handheld global positioning device, McKenzie Wark tracks the secret passage of free time and free thought through the spaces of an everyday life lived increasingly in the shadow of the satellites. Dispositions records one writer’s experience of art and everyday life while struggling to be at home in a world of global commerce and surveillance. Dispositions proposes a joyous but pragmatic anarchy of thought and writing as the antidote to the discipline that states and markets alike impose on knowledge and culture. |
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Main description: In an age where displacement and dislocation are a common place, McKenzie Wark sets out to make the best of it. In Dispositions, he creates a way of writing that can create a sense of belonging while remaining outside of the markers of a reliable identity, whether in terms of nation, profession, gender or genre. Walking a fine line between the essay, the memoir, fiction and the prose poem, Dispositions creates a nomadic geography that can find its way across the space of both the city and the space of the text. Wark reimagines Australian writing as a ‘minor literature’, traversing the world in its own way. As Mark Amerika says: “Dispositions reads like a philosophictional codework that samples vocabularies, manipulates meanings, and mixes discourses. Wark’s tele-nomadic GPS blog style is an anti-memoir you won't forget.” |
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Review quote: Well … think of the book like this: a hybrid of James Howard Kunstler in “Geography of Nowhere” and a sane Hunter S. Thompson with a laptop and Global Positioning telephone rig, and you've got a book that’s as lucidly reasoned as it is emotional … think of Wark’s “Dispositions” as an impassioned birth cry of a world where geography is difference without distinction … it’s a freewheeling real life view of our networked times – where anywhere can be everywhere. Nomads of the world check the frequency: In “Dispositions” you’ll turn on, and tune in, but be forewarned – you won’t be able to drop out.
Paul D. Miller a.k.a. Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid |
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Review quote: Dispositions skitters between the real and the poetic; a love letter to a wife in a different city, a melancholy musing on the idea of ‘home’ and an intense travelogue that comes to an abrupt end, all too aptly, on September 11.… Images from this book will haunt long after reading.
Ashley Crawford
Melbourne Age |
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