Fwd: The Info Terror Show

Oct. 27, 2004

Type: discussion

Begin forwarded message:

> From: McKenzie Wark <[email protected]>
> Date: October 26, 2004 7:25:29 PM EDT
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: The Info Terror Show
>
>
> Sorry for the mass-mailout. Please pass this on to anyone
> who may be interested. All welcome. – Ken
>
> Lang College and the Design + Technology Program Present:
>
> Playdate Seminar #3
>
> 2PM Wednesday 3rd November
> Theresa Lang Student Center at 55 West 13th St, 2nd floor
>
> food and beverages provided
>
>
> The InfoTerror Show
> Prof. James Der Derian
>
> Against a multi-media backdrop supplied by the
> military-industrial-media-entertainment network, the convergence of
> technological and theological fundamentalisms is projected.
>
>
> James Der Derian is Professor of Political Science at UMASS/Amherst and
> Professor of International Studies (Research) at Brown University,
> where
> he directs the Global Security Program and the InfoTechWarPeace Project
> (www.infopeace.org). He has been a visiting scholar at the University
> of
> Southern California, MIT, Harvard, Oxford, and the Institute for
> Advanced Study at Princeton. He is author of On Diplomacy: A Genealogy
> of Western Estrangement (1987) and Antidiplo
> macy: Spies, Terror, Speed,
> and War (1992); editor of International Theory: Critical
> Investigations
> (1995) and The Virilio Reader (1998); and co-editor with Michael
> Shapiro
> of International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings of World
> Politics (1989). His articles on war, technology, and the media have
> appeared in the New York Times, Nation, Washington Quarterly, and
> Wired.
> His most recent book is Virtuous War: Mapping the
> Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network (2001).
>
>
> McKenzie Wark ~~~~~~~A Hacker Manifesto
> http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WARHAC.html
>