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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:25:29 -0400
From: McKenzie Wark <mw35@nyu.edu>
To: mw35@nyu.edu
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