CTheory Announcement:
PACIFIC CENTRE FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE (PACTAC)

We are pleased to announce the opening of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture.

Located at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC) is conceived as a unique interdisciplinary institute for researching and teaching issues related to the impact of technological change on culture, politics and society. Simultaneously a centre of global intellectual exchange and an innovative and collaborative site for exploring the digital future, PACTAC approaches the question of technology from perspectives which are interdisciplinary in scope, critical in sensibility, and creative, experimental and immersive in method.

CTHEORY is an integral part of the intellectual project of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture. "Electronic Theory: Science, Terror and Nihilism," PACTAC's inaugural lecture series (listed below) will be streamed and archived on CTHEORY?s web site (www.ctheory.net).

The Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture has been created within the context of Dr. Arthur Kroker's Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria and is supported with infrastructure funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund as well as the generous support of the University of Victoria.

kind regards,

Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
Editors, CTHEORY

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PACIFIC CENTRE FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE (PACTAC)

Lecture Series: Winter 2004
Electronic Theory: Science, Terror & Nihilism

University of Victoria
British Columbia, Canada

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Thursday January 29. 4:00pm

Sound Unbound / Rhythm Science
Paul D. Miller a.k.a. Dj Spooky

New York based multimedia artist, theorist and remix sound Dj.

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Thursday February 12. 2:30pm

The Cultural Politics of Bio-genetics
Dr. William Leiss, F.R.S.C.

NSERC/SSHRC/Industry Research Chair in Risk Communication and Public Policy, University of Calgary.
Past President: The Royal Society of Canada.

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Monday February 16. 2:30pm

Re-Reading the War on Terrrorr: Technology, Culture and Security
Bradley Bryan, Benjamin Muller, Sara Pash, Geoff Whitehall.

Symposium moderated by Dr. James Tully.
Department of Political Science, University of Victoria.

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Wednesday March 10. 4:00pm

The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism
Dr. Arthur Kroker: Multimedia Book Launch & Lecture

Canada Research Chair in Technologyy, Culture and Theory
Department of Political Science, University of Victoria

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Sponsors:

Dr. Arthur Kroker, CRC in Technology, Culture and Theory
University of Victoria.

CTHEORY. www.ctheory.net >> live stream on ctheory.net

click here for live stream

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PACTAC Location:

Technology Enterprise Facility (TEF), Room 170. 2300 MacKenzie.