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Subject: [CTHEORY] CTheory Live: Religion, Technology & Terrorism
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CTHEORY: THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE VOL 29, NO 3
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Announcement 17/10/2006 Editors: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
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CTheory Live: Religion, Technology & Terrorism
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Dear CTheory Readers,
We are very pleased to announce a new CTheory Live symposium:
Religion, Technology & Terrorism, which will take place at the
Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, University of Victoria
(www.pactac.ca) on Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 2:30pm (PST).
The symposium will be followed by the electronic book launch of
two new CTheory Books projects.
Both events will be streamed live, and can be viewed at:
http://www.pactac.net/stream.html
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RELIGION, TECHNOLOGY & TERRORISM
Symposium and Electronic Book Launch
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2006
SESSION STARTS AT 2:30 PST
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| DR. STEPHEN PFOHL |
| (Sociology, Boston College) |
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| TECHNOLOGIES OF THE APOCALYPSE: |
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| THE _LEFT BEHIND_ NOVELS AND |
| FLIGHT FROM THE FLESH |
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| DR. ANDREW WERNICK |
| (Cultural Studies, Trent University) |
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| THE PASSION OF THE SOCIAL: |
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| REFLECTIONS ON THE SEATTLE RAVE KILLINGS |
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Followed by the Electronic Book Launch of
two new CTheory Books
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| STEPHEN PFOHL |
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| LEFT BEHIND: |
| TECHNOLOGY, RELIGION AND |
| FLIGHT FROM THE FLESH |
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| AND |
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| ARTHUR KROKER |
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| BORN AGAIN IDEOLOGY: |
| RELIGION, TECHNOLOGY, AND TERRORISM |
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Andrew Wernick is a sociologist and historian of ideas as well as
a cultural theorist and jazz pianist. He is the founder and
director of Trent University's Institute for the Study of Popular
Culture as well as the current chair of Trent's Cultural Studies
Department. His interests focus on media theory and advertising,
the place of religion in postmodernity, and the notion of time in
contemporary culture. He is the author of _Promotional Culture:
Advertising, Ideology, and Symbolic Expression_ (Sage, 1991) and
co-editor of _Shadow of Spirit: Religion and Postmodernism_
(Routledge, 1992) and _Images of Ageing_ (Routledge, 1995).
Stephen Pfohl is Professor of Sociology at Boston College
where he teaches courses on social theory; postmodern culture;
crime, deviance and social control; images and power; and
sociology and psychoanalysis. Dr. Pfohl is the author of numerous
books and articles including _Death at the Parasite Cafe_,
_Images of Deviance and Social Control_, _Predicting
Dangerousness_, and the forthcoming volumes _Venus in Video_
and _Magic and the Machine_. A past-President of the Society
for the Study of Social Problems and a founding member of
Sit-Com International, a Boston-area collective of activists
and artists, he is also co-editor of the 2006 book _Culture,
Power, and History: Studies in Critical Sociology_.
Arthur Kroker is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture
and Theory and Professor of Political Science at the University
of Victoria, Canada. Co-editor of CTheory and Director of the
Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (www.pactac.net), he
is the author of numerous books on technology and culture,
including _The Possessed Individual: Technology and the French
Postmodern_, _Data Trash: The Theory of the Virtual Class_
(with M. Weinstein), and _The Will to Technology and the
Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche and Marx_.
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