A Portrait of the Media Theorists as a Young Man—My MEA2020 Presentation

June 18, 2020 / Clinton / 0 Comments

Very glad to present to the Media Ecology Association yesterday. 🙂

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Hello World! My concerns, fellow netizens, are about how cyberspace has affected our sense of embodiment and existence in our physical world. I study and tutor on Marshall McLuhan, and develop my ideas in what I am calling a Full Stack Media Ecology.

My earnest questioning began in 2014. Answers finally manifested in 2017 with my video documentary series Silicon & Charybdis.

In March 2024 I released a book-length culmination of my work the past decade titled Cheating at Peekaboo Against a Bad Faith Adversary detailing how the work of Jean Piaget was used to hijack early childhood development in kids like TempleOS creator Terry A. Davis.

Read more about the complementarity between media ecology and developmental psychology here in Who You Callin’ a Robot?

In June of 2019 I “Toppled the Pillars of Cyberspace” in Toronto at the 20th Annual Media Ecology Association Convention. Watch or read my presentation and paper to get to know more about how this all started.

I’ve also presented twice at LibrePlanet for the Free Software Foundation. My 2023 talk on the Long History of Metrics Before and After Cybernetics presents a sprawling overview of how mechanical calculation and optimization took over our world, inspired by Marshall McLuhan.

There is lots more to discover on this site and on my YouTube channel!

I write about my recovery from psychosis in a separate blog called Less Mad. More on that here.

Also find me as @clintonthegeek on Twitter

Latest Posts

On Haidt’s Anxious Generation: Review Part Deux July 24, 2024
Four Part Resonance July 15, 2024
Turning the Friggin’ Frogs Gay in Three Easy Steps July 3, 2024
(Late) Spring Cleaning! June 25, 2024
Going a little crazy over on Substack… May 3, 2024
The Overdetermination of le mot juste April 5, 2024
TechNosis: Get to the Outer Hull March 31, 2024
On Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation March 26, 2024
Postmodernism is Cyberspace March 23, 2024
Information isn’t a Substance and Ideas are not Viruses March 21, 2024

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2023 (9)
2022 (13)
2021 (10)
2020 (9)
2019 (14)
2018 (10)

Less Mad

Locus of Convergence

Remember when our devices were discrete? Even when everything became computerized, our gadgets were single purpose. You had a phone, you had a digital camera, you had an .mp3 player, your Palm device was just a calendar and notepad. If there was a mediating technology which glued them all together, it was your desktop or laptop computer. Its unifying ground...
The Stagnant Homunculus, Part I

Life in the CaveOnce I got high-speed internet as a teenager, I thought the rest of my life had finally arrived.The hundreds of hours I had spent pouring over the spines of cassettes at the Super Video 99, looking for some delectable je ne sais quoi to make my afternoon, were only a preparation. Now, with broadband, I had an...
Is living as your online-self personality psychopathology?

Happy to release this recording of a conversation between myself and psychologist J.D. Haltigan, PhD of The Multilevel Mailer!The Multilevel Mailer Is living as your online-self personality psychopathology?Concerned Netizen Clinton Ignatov of the LessMad Substack and I sat down for a conversation on September 5th, 2024. Our broad topic: the influence of online life and internet culture...
Being an Individual in The System

The twentieth century gave rise to the sciences of cybernetics and applied systems theory. These paradigms sought to go past the Newtonian view of the world as mechanical clockwork, toward a more organic vision of complex interrelations between many parts and wholes of strange shape. Perhaps, most popularly, this idea has been captured in the phrase “the butterfly effect.”While the...
Quick (and incomplete) History of Rhetoric

Not only have I begun a full-time college course, I’ve also been packing and moving all month! So, I’m sorry for the slowdown in posts. Thing will pick up again once I’m settled in.This is why I’ve decided to share this piece—which is both one I like a lot and yet also one which I cannot—for reasons you will discover—finish...
Performative Argument

I try to keep my ego slim and avoid getting easily slotted into a community or identity. These are not necessarily foundational principles for me; they are principles I adopted through the course of trying to regain some clarity and coherency of thought, body and mind during my psychotic break.Maybe that’s weird. To “keep a slim ego” sounds kinda Buddhist,...

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