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David Gornoski
David GornoskiTHINGS HIDDEN 130: Mastering Our Disincarnate Era With Clinton IgnatovClinton Ignatov joins David Gornoski for a conversation on the impact of the printing press on the Western psyche, the emergence of individualism, how radical information technology devastates, whether people are possessed, whether current wars are a product of technological revolution, the enshrining of atomic physics, breaking out of the disincarnate world of bits, and more. Check out Clinton's work here. Visit A Neighbor's Choice website at aneighborschoice.com
2023-06-211h 54David Gornoski
David GornoskiTHINGS HIDDEN 89: Media Ecological MeleeIn this THINGS HIDDEN episode, David Gornoski is joined by Scott Talkington and the returning Clinton Ignatov. The three talk about the overlap between the works of John Deely and Marshall McLuhan; electric universe theory; the linguistic effects of computers; the difference between nescience and ignorance; social amnesia; the meaning of Tetrad; and more. Visit Clinton’s website here. Visit A Neighbor's Choice website at aneighborshoice.com
2022-10-311h 19David Gornoski
David GornoskiTHINGS HIDDEN 87: The Return of McLuhan with Clinton IgnatovDavid Gornoski is joined by Clinton Ignatov for a conversation on the worldview of Marshall McLuhan, why listening to a song on the radio is different from other mediums, how print media is connected to the negative effects of social media, the modern preference for irony over sincerity, whether video killed the radio star, the interplay with McLuhan's ideas with the work of Rene Girard, and various other topics. Visit Clinton's website here. Visit A Neighbor's Choice website here.
2022-10-222h 09Team Human
Team HumanClinton IgnatovEssayist and McLuhan archivist Clinton Ignatov helps us understand Marshall McLuhan - and ourselves - in the context of the media environments we inhabit and the metaphors we use to understand them.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how our desperate attempts at profiteering and monopolization render us all more vulnerable to death and disaster.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How Capitalism Makes Us Less Safe, on Medium.For more about Clinton IgnatovTwitter | Website🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the gene...
2022-09-231h 07I\'m Probably Wrong (About Everything)
I'm Probably Wrong (About Everything)#112 Gerry Fialka & Clinton Ignatov: Marshall McLuhan's “The Medium is The Message” Means…Gerry Fialka and Clinton Ignatov are gracious enough to take me on an exploration on Marshall McLuhan’s precepts and his infamous slogan "The Medium is the Message" and what it might possibly mean.    Clinton Ignatov is a writer, philosopher and curator of New Explorations: Studies in Culture & Communication. You can check out his website here: https://newexplorations.net/  Gerry Fialka is an experiemental film maker, mediacologist, philosopher and an all around beauty human. Check out Gerry's page at: http://laughtears.com/  #mediacology #marshallmcluhan #philosophy #mediumisthemessage “Wha...
2022-01-1324 minThe Massage: Presented by The McLuhan Institute
The Massage: Presented by The McLuhan InstituteThe Massage: Presented by The McLuhan Institute S1 EP1: Clinton IgnatovSubscribe to TMI Newsletter for all updates: https://mcluhaninstitute.substack.com/welcome Clinton Ignatov was born in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario. Growing up an hour's drive from Toronto in a small town, he developed an early interest in reading, computers, Star Trek, and karaoke. He began visiting the local library regularly to use the internet, eventually getting dial-up in his home around the year 2000. Some of his favourite websites to browse as a teenager were Fark.com, an American news aggregator, and Slashdot.org, a community revolving around the computer industry. The immersion in the daily discussions of...
2021-02-201h 01Sweeny vs Bard
Sweeny vs BardSweeny vs Bard Season 3 Ep. 8: Marshall Mcluhan Symposium: with Clinton IgnatovClinton Ignatov is a Mcluhan scholar and has a labyrinthine mind like an eccentric Renaissance alchemist.  He has a great YouTube channel called ‘Concerned Netizen’ where he goes into the weeds of this great Canadian scholar who discovered ‘The global village’ and then later renamed it ‘The global theater’.  Alexander Bard’s philosophy is also aimed at, among other things, trying to understand Mcluhanism for the internet age, and contains the same challenging prophetic urgency, which is never moralistic.  Enjoy this sparking conversation and deep dive! Links: Parallax Youtube Newsletter Links to books by Alexande...
2021-01-152h 03Life in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 013 – Tobey Senderovich Join York University graduate Tobey Senderovich and I for a sprawling conversation about thought, cognition, psychology, behaviorism, wisdom, Heidegger, James J. Gibson’s ecological psychology, John Vervaeke’s machinery of knowing, Friedrich Kittler, social lock-down, media effects, and anything else we can throw in! Tobey’s degrees in Neuroscience and Psychology make him the perfect friend to paint a big picture of the world’s new common ground. Subscribe to Life in the Foam! iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/life-in-the-foam/id1436529103 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7cjpKUGLA9VmQBwYdWdM3m
2020-04-0259 minLife in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 013 – Tobey Senderovich Join York University graduate Tobey Senderovich and I for a sprawling conversation about thought, cognition, psychology, behaviorism, wisdom, Heidegger, James J. Gibson’s ecological psychology, John Vervaeke’s machinery of knowing, Friedrich Kittler, social lock-down, media effects, and anything else we can throw in! Tobey’s degrees in Neuroscience and Psychology make him the perfect friend to paint a big picture of the world’s new common ground. Subscribe to Life in the Foam! iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/life-in-the-foam/id1436529103 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7cjpKUGLA9VmQBwYdWdM3m
2020-04-0259 minLife in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 012 – Howard Rheingold Beneath the well-popularized myths of giants like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, computing has fast-moving, highly-technical story involving very many people and places. And in 1984, Howard Rheingold—who had been the embedded writer documenting and communicating the work of the Xerox PARC team as they developed the GUI, Ethernet, and Object Oriented Programming paradigms—saw the very-real possibility of that story going unrecorded, and lost to history. His book Tools for Thought became the definitive work documenting the history of computer development, and was a key resource of mine for creative Silicon and Charybdis. His later books, like...
2019-10-0936 minLife in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 012 – Howard Rheingold Beneath the well-popularized myths of giants like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, computing has fast-moving, highly-technical story involving very many people and places. And in 1984, Howard Rheingold—who had been the embedded writer documenting and communicating the work of the Xerox PARC team as they developed the GUI, Ethernet, and Object Oriented Programming paradigms—saw the very-real possibility of that story going unrecorded, and lost to history. His book Tools for Thought became the definitive work documenting the history of computer development, and was a key resource of mine for creative Silicon and Charybdis. His later books, like...
2019-10-0936 minLife in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 011 – Thom Stark The internet exploded in the 90s from an obscure academic network into a world-changing total-environment, the ramifications of which we are still trying to understand. In that time, Thom Stark was living in the San Francisco Bay Area, reporting from the ground on the developing network technologies which undergird all of our modern communications. His website, StarkRealities.com, contains his nearly 100 columns from these formative years covering everything from technologies like Bluetooth, Wifi, IPv4 vs. IPv6, to social concerns regarding “netiquette”, privacy, spam, misleading marketing practices, and government regulation. They make up, for all intents and purposes, a co...
2019-08-282h 03Life in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 011 – Thom Stark The internet exploded in the 90s from an obscure academic network into a world-changing total-environment, the ramifications of which we are still trying to understand. In that time, Thom Stark was living in the San Francisco Bay Area, reporting from the ground on the developing network technologies which undergird all of our modern communications. His website, StarkRealities.com, contains his nearly 100 columns from these formative years covering everything from technologies like Bluetooth, Wifi, IPv4 vs. IPv6, to social concerns regarding “netiquette”, privacy, spam, misleading marketing practices, and government regulation. They make up, for all intents and purposes, a co...
2019-08-282h 03Life in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 010 – Richard AltmanFrom the middle of Canada came Marshall McLuhan: a Winnipigeon. So too hails film editor Richard Altman, whose recently released McLuhan Unclaimed series of videos ought to give you something to think about for the next ten years as you think to play it in the background of your down-time. Altman deftly distills hundreds of hours of audio and video footage into a tight, psychedelic montage of meaning which can be jumped into at any point, for any duration, to give your brain something meaty to chew on. If you want to take a deep-plunge into what media ecology...
2019-08-1058 minLife in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 010 – Richard AltmanFrom the middle of Canada came Marshall McLuhan: a Winnipigeon. So too hails film editor Richard Altman, whose recently released McLuhan Unclaimed series of videos ought to give you something to think about for the next ten years as you think to play it in the background of your down-time. Altman deftly distills hundreds of hours of audio and video footage into a tight, psychedelic montage of meaning which can be jumped into at any point, for any duration, to give your brain something meaty to chew on. If you want to take a deep-plunge into what media ecology...
2019-08-1058 minLife in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 009 – Kimberley NobleKimberley Noble is a multiple-award-winning journalist for investigative and feature stories that explored the how things really work in corporate Canada’s corridors of power. She was former long-time staff writer for The Globe and Mail and Maclean’s Magazine, and won the National Newspaper Awards for Business Reporting for her coverage of both the Edper Group (the forerunner of the conglomerate now known as Brookfield) and of the big money behind the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute. She was also nominated for two additional NNAs for series about executive compensation and white-collar crime; among other awards were a busi...
2019-07-0356 minLife in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 009 – Kimberley NobleKimberley Noble is a multiple-award-winning journalist for investigative and feature stories that explored the how things really work in corporate Canada’s corridors of power. She was former long-time staff writer for The Globe and Mail and Maclean’s Magazine, and won the National Newspaper Awards for Business Reporting for her coverage of both the Edper Group (the forerunner of the conglomerate now known as Brookfield) and of the big money behind the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute. She was also nominated for two additional NNAs for series about executive compensation and white-collar crime; among other awards were a busi...
2019-07-0356 minLife in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 008 – Andrew McLuhan In the cozy town of Picton, Ontario lays a treasure trove of books. The accrual of two life-times of annotations makes this personal library one of the world’s most important resources for insight on media and our modern environment. Inheritor Andrew McLuhan has started The McLuhan Institute to carry on the work of diligently cataloguing and analyzing this vast store of wisdom. Go to http://themcluhaninstitute.com to see all the ways you can follow along, help support, and be a part of this great human endeavour! You can subscribe to Life in the Fo...
2019-04-0758 minLife in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 008 – Andrew McLuhan In the cozy town of Picton, Ontario lays a treasure trove of books. The accrual of two life-times of annotations makes this personal library one of the world’s most important resources for insight on media and our modern environment. Inheritor Andrew McLuhan has started The McLuhan Institute to carry on the work of diligently cataloguing and analyzing this vast store of wisdom. Go to http://themcluhaninstitute.com to see all the ways you can follow along, help support, and be a part of this great human endeavour! You can subscribe to Life in the Fo...
2019-04-0758 minLife in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 007 – Down the Rabbit Hole with Fredrik Knudsen With over 300,000 YouTube subscribers, Fredrik Knudsen has well-earned his success as a documentary film maker. His carefully researched, thoughtfully produced series Down the Rabbit Hole sets a high bar for interesting, respectful, and honest explorations of some of the strangest psychologies and stories that have emerged in our modern world. From early 20th century history straight through to contemporary internet scenes and dramatics, Fredrik’s videos aren’t just entertaining as hell, but are important case studies ripe with teachable moments and cautions for staying sane in a hyper-connected world. Down the Rabbit Hole Yo...
2018-11-181h 02Life in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 007 – Down the Rabbit Hole with Fredrik Knudsen With over 300,000 YouTube subscribers, Fredrik Knudsen has well-earned his success as a documentary film maker. His carefully researched, thoughtfully produced series Down the Rabbit Hole sets a high bar for interesting, respectful, and honest explorations of some of the strangest psychologies and stories that have emerged in our modern world. From early 20th century history straight through to contemporary internet scenes and dramatics, Fredrik’s videos aren’t just entertaining as hell, but are important case studies ripe with teachable moments and cautions for staying sane in a hyper-connected world. Down the Rabbit Hole Yo...
2018-11-181h 02Life in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 006 – The Trivium with Rachel Fulton Brown A conversation with Medievalist Professor Rachel Fulton Brown on the relationship between the Classic Trivium and its relation to digital media today. Professor Fulton Brown’s Fencing Bear at Prayer Blog Academic website including course syllabi An overview of McLuhan’s interest in the Trivium You can subscribe to Life in the Foam on iTunes If you’d like to sponsor my work, please make a donation at Patreon. …
2018-11-151h 43Life in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 006 – The Trivium with Rachel Fulton Brown A conversation with Medievalist Professor Rachel Fulton Brown on the relationship between the Classic Trivium and its relation to digital media today. Professor Fulton Brown’s Fencing Bear at Prayer Blog Academic website including course syllabi An overview of McLuhan’s interest in the Trivium You can subscribe to Life in the Foam on iTunes If you’d like to sponsor my work, please make a donation at Patreon.…
2018-11-151h 43Life in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 005 – Many McLuhans Symposium On September 21, 2018 I attended the Many McLuhans Symposium at the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library in Toronto! Here is a journey through my takeaway from the event, told through excerpts and interviews, featuring many wonderful academics, McLuhan family members, and enthusiasts in the scene. You can subscribe to Life in the Foam on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/life-in-the-foam/id1436529103 If you’d like to sponsor my work, please make a donation at Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/clintonthegeek …
2018-10-1959 minLife in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 005 – Many McLuhans Symposium On September 21, 2018 I attended the Many McLuhans Symposium at the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library in Toronto! Here is a journey through my takeaway from the event, told through excerpts and interviews, featuring many wonderful academics, McLuhan family members, and enthusiasts in the scene. You can subscribe to Life in the Foam on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/life-in-the-foam/id1436529103 If you’d like to sponsor my work, please make a donation at Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/clintonthegeek…
2018-10-1959 minLife in the Foam
Life in the FoamEpisode 004 – Paul LevinsonProfessor Paul Levinson, PHD, teaches Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City and is the author of many books, including The Digital McLuhan. In this ground-breaking episode we delve deep into McLuhanalia, the historical implications of modern events, and the social effects of technology. An absolute must-see! Prof. Levinson’s website can […]
2018-09-191h 30