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 […]

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Episode 013 – Tobey Senderovich

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 […]

Episode 012 – Howard Rheingold

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 […]

Episode 011 – Thom Stark

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 deftly distills hundreds of […]

Episode 010 – Richard Altman

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 Awards for Business Reporting for her coverage of both the Edper Group […]

Episode 009 – Kimberley Noble

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 […]

Episode 008 – Andrew McLuhan

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 […]

Episode 007 – Down the Rabbit Hole with Fredrik Knudsen

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 […]

Episode 006 – The Trivium with Rachel Fulton Brown

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 […]

Episode 005 – Many McLuhans Symposium

Professor 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 […]

Episode 004 – Paul Levinson

A broad conversation on Social Media with Don Talton, automation expert, media psychology grad student, and creator of the SafeNews media rating service. We talk history of the net, privacy and cultural problems, and the 2016 Election with lots of great context! If you’d like to sponsor my work, please make a donation at Patreon: […]

Episode 003 – Social Media

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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