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Life in the Foam
by Clinton Ignatov
A show about media in the 21st century and the consequences of digital technology. How do things hold together when everyone can live in their own little world?
Episodes
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Episode 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...
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Episode 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…
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Episode 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...
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Episode 010 – Richard Altman
From 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...
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Episode 009 – Kimberley Noble
Kimberley 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…
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Episode 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...
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Episode 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…
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Episode 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…
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Episode 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.…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A show about media in the 21st century and the consequences of digital technology. How do things hold together when everyone can live in their own little world?
HOSTED BY
Clinton Ignatov
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A show about media in the 21st century and the consequences of digital technology. How do things hold together when everyone can live in their own little world?
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