My Cyberspace
In June of 2018 I began a somewhat autobiographical account of my life on computers for the sake of better understanding the medium, in line with my application of the ideas of Marshall McLuhan. It is called My Cyberspace and I decided to post them online on my old WordPress site and am mirroring them here. Lots of nostalgia, technical details, and internet history.
Here are parts one, two, and three of My Cyberspace.
Recently, I’ve elaborated a great deal on Less Mad on formerly-hidden reasons for writing My Cyberspace as a psychological chrysalis (a textual accompaniment alongside the audiovisual Silicon & Charybdis) for the development of an emerging new, self-authored identity following a psychotic break.
Less Mad
I suffered a protracted psychosis in the latter half of 2017, abating gradually only later in 2018. In the spring of 2024, I decided that I the time had come to open up a little more personally and discuss some aspects of this publicly. You can find many of my latest writings, some pay-walled, at my newsletter Less Mad.
Interviews and Presentations
Besides what you will find in the right-hand sidebar and everything in the Archive of this site, I’ve had gigs all around the net.
Of course, I myself have had two podcasts. The primary one I called Life In the Foam, found on this very site, and the second is New Explorations. Between the two of them, you’ll find me interviewing prolific figures in the media world and McLuhan scene including Howard Rheingold, Andrew McLuhan, Derrick de Kerckhove, Paul Levinson, medievalist Rachel Fulton Brown, and Down the Rabbit Hole creator Fredrick Knudsen.
Early in my career I was the guest of prolific Manhattan Neighborhood Network interviewer and socialite Harold Channer four times for his television program Conversations.
The introduction to Harold came by way of Bob Dobbs, para-media ecologist and North America’s radio-based conspiracy theorist at CKLN out of Ryerson University in the early ’80s. Bob and I have been doing weekly radio shows since 2018 up to the present, the vast majority of which are presently unavailable. Our latest collaborations have been for the program Office Hours.
While I had met and spoke with Venice Beach’s famed socialite Gerry Fialka at the Media Ecology Association’s 2019 convention in Toronto, I didn’t really know what he was about until he interviewed me in July of 2020. After that, we were a match. For well over a hundred episodes I did tech work for Gerry prolific interviews of interesting people, famous and otherwise. I hosted the videos and make guest appearances at the end of nearly every one. Gerry has also had me on several round-table discussions. Gerry’s newest interviews and roundtables can be found on Rob Grant’s I’m Probably Wrong About Everything channel.
Early 2021 I spoke with James Kourtides on The Rooster’s Crow podcast.
A little prior, I got down and dirty with Alexander Bard and Andrew Sweeny of Parallax Media about Marshall McLuhan, and presented on the subject of Media Shamanhood for their Maniphesto Acadamy project run Andrew Sweeny, Owen Cox, and Eskil Steffenson.
After that I was pleased to be hosted by Andrew McLuhan for The Message, a podcast from The McLuhan Institute.
Summer 2023 I was a guest on Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human podcast, and talked sex and porn with Owen Cox and Raven Connolly for Body Politics. On the other extreme, I spoke with radio host David Gornoski about McLuhan’s idea of the discarnate state, René Girard, and Christianity.
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Katherine Dee has been walking the beat of internet history and media effects for a long time, with bylines for The Washington Examiner, UnHerd, Tablet, The Spectator, The New Atlantis, Compact, RETURN, The American Mind, and more. So I pounced on the chance to regularly contribute to her newsletter Default Wisdom, writing about McLuhan, #GamerGate and every other topic she’ll let me get into. 🙂
August 8, 2022 – Misreading McLuhan
August 16, 2022 – Oh, For the Love of Knowledge!
August 29, 2022 – Gaming Is Leaving Gamers Behind (Part 1)
October 5, 2022 – The Importance of Dedicating Your Life to Primary Texts
November 4, 2022 – #GamerGate As a Media War (Part 2)
November 26, 2022 – Is Disrespecting Strangers on the Internet Psychopathy? (A response to JBP)
April 10, 2023 – Pornography Is the Obvious Telos of AI-Based Image Generation
April 16, 2023 – The Internet is for Porn
June 8, 2023 – The Printing Press Was the Beginning of the Fragmented Self
March 13, 2024 – “The kids ARE creating a better world-in their heads.”
March 26, 2024 – On Jonathan Haidt’s Anxious Generation (Part 1)
July 24, 2024 – On Jonathan Haidt’s Anxious Generation (Part 2)