Screen shot from "Vanishing Surveillance: Securityscapes and Ambient Government"—excellent short lecture by Professor David Murakami Wood, Canada Research Chair in Surveillance Studies (how's that for a job title) of Queen's University.  

In the talk Murakami Wood covers millennia of security measures built on landscape manipulations and other naturalistic techniques to lead into a theory of immanent "ambient government"—sensorial presences of the State so ubiquitously and subtly embedded into the environment that they are almost indistinguishable from nature.  

Strong stuff via CTheory from the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture at the University of Victoria, thanks to Arthur and Marilouise Kroker.

We are thankful and proud to have been included in the #ModernMarvel show on the @HistoryChannel this past Friday. We have received many kind comments, emails, and tweets about the show. We are waiting for the History Channel's DVD so we can have the video online shortly.

With that said . . . what is next on the horizon at PacTec? Currently, we are working on the new UK and Philippines websites as well as the company Facebook page. We are working with @AdamCulpepper and his crew at @Transformyx. I recommend following them on Twitter! What we have coming online with them is going to be really great.

We will also be at Waste Management Symposium 2011 in Phoenix in late February! We will be at booth 720, so please come by and say hello! We will have a bag on hand that is the same bag that was on the History Channel!

If, you didn't get a chance to see the show but want to read about it, here is a link to the Baton Rouge, @2theadvocate , with a story about #PacTec and the show.

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