In the links that follow this blog, the text ahead will be "starred" in a similar manner to the method used by Roland Barthes. First, the text will be virtuously exploded using purely hypertext, and then it will be dissected again using anything but hypertext. Feel free to enter the text through any "door" that you please, as it is open from many sides. They are out of order on purpose to explicate this. Simply use the blog roll on the left (each blog contains a new step in the starring). To begin the starring, click the passage.
"Where do events come from? Do they fall from the sky? Yes they do. From the Comsat angels in orbit overhead, or thrown from a truck onto the ground in front of your local news stand. Robert McChesney points out that these vectors from whence we get the information to form an ongoing map of the world and its histories become increasingly concentrated in fewer and fewer corporate hands. These corporate owners are increasingly integrating diverse media holdings to more profitable co-ordinate print and audio-visual flows. No matter how many channels we can get, our main news feed comes from few hands indeed."
--McKenzie Wark, page 267.
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