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RT @AlexKuskis Welcome to the International Journal of McLuhan Studies http://t.co/s1dxbGPb http://t.co/tmK2hWKQ
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U. of Toronto post on Artforum's pick of Media & Formal Cause by Marshall & Eric McLuhan as one of 10 best of 2011 http://t.co/mzPLYGYz
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posted a new blog entry:
as moments last can you still do the straphanger fold? grab hold of colum...
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- LadyLiterati (Poetess O…yesterday
...and the moments slip into memories, of what should of been, what could of been, what was and what was not...
Very interesting read - thought provoking :-)- Lance Strateyesterday
thanks so much, LL!
- Amy Ruhwoldt2 days ago
I guess we have to live in the moment.
- Lance Strateyesterday
and make the moment last...
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a new post: Visualizing the Data Matrix http://t.co/c2YJZSgI
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The Romney-tron! even a robot can grow up to be president some day! http://t.co/UgJtZ1rp
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Comments
- Peter kelly9 days ago
click on all pictures for a full view
have you ever been this tired ?
makes me feel like taking a nap!!
Link to KALEIDOSCOPIC SHADOWS http://www.myspace.com/wpeterkell/blog/545232130
have a great week - peter - The Girl who swam with …10 days ago
hey, Lance. I attempted to leave a comment on your blog, but Ms playing up again i see. oh well..
- Lance Strate10 days ago
thanks anyway!
- Bruce Barten19 days ago
This book that I am reviewing for shoppers on the internet came out before Lance Strate and I had the opportunity to be counted as friends by each other on an internet social network that produced a few hundred million potential friends, many of whom just had a single picture of themselves and an invitation to join some other form of internet contact which they used more frequently. My interest in this book was not entirely what happens to someone who has seen poems by Lance Strate as one of the most interesting reflections on the rampant arch that scholars compete on for significance. I have an interest in McLuhan as a literary critic able to decide when someone is just rambling, rambunctious, or a ramification of changes in American culture since Jesus Christ walked this earth long ago in a different country. My interest in supernatural powers did not find a resting place among the secular points of view expressed by the communications scholars who provided most of the papers in The Legacy of McLuhan.
Like a killer on the rampage, the entertainment values promoted on TV often produce rambunctious children. I tried to make my children literary and somewhat churchified, but the culture which was rampant (in full sway, prevailing unbridled) was stiffening into a ramrod regimentation for uniformity which ultimately split my personality so much that the Vet Center wanted to make sure my shrink had given me a diagnosis, and the diagnosis was schizoid personality disorder. I was living in a ramshackle house with a ramshackle car, and everybody was expecting my luck to run out each time I got fired. Having a job aroused my inner rancidity. Now I am retired and still rancorous. This book did not answer any of the fundamental questions I have about the future of my sense of monstrosity. - 20 days ago
- Rodger Ashton-Smith1 month ago
Just reading your stats on this site you sound a lot like me in your prefrences for music, books and movies. Quite a few of them rang familiar bells in my head, thanks and Happy New Year!
- Oni Sakti - Artist1 month ago
Thank You For The Connection
Stop By Anytime To See More Work And Stay Up To Date
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And The Music Of Geodesic
http://www.facebook.com/GeodesicMusic - Heron Open Mind, Inser…1 month ago
Hi Lance, haven't been here in a long while. I hope all is well with you and yours. I am the one who started that group Second Foudation. I am now on FB, Faja Anser Love. I am hopeful. I hope to inspire someone. You know a lot of smart someones. Please look in my direction!
- lake's tears1 month ago
Hi~ hope ur doin GREAT!!
- LadyLiterati (Poetess O…2 months ago
After reading your profile, do you by chance know Professor Stephen Cole? (Rice University)
- LadyLiterati (Poetess O…2 months ago
Lance, here is a link to the poem I quoted on your blog...enjoy :-)
http://www.myspace.com/544739317/blog/544591648
Interests
General
Communication, conversation, elaboration, observation, meditation, contemplation, deliberation, education, investigation, documentation, publication, creation, exploration, experimentation, speculation, imagination, fascination, emancipation, inspiration, illumination, exhilaration, translation, circulation, dissemination, information, siginification, explanation, interpretation, classification, relation, celebration, consideration, illustration, decoration, preparation, cultivation, generation, innovation, elevation, congregation, association, cooperation, collaboration, civilization, administration, habitation, reputation, sensation, vibration, fermentation, inhalation, aviation, gratification, animation, automation, technologization, quotation, donation, equation, vegetation, punctuation, pronunciation, abbreviation, transportation, destination, location, agitation, integration, accumulation, duration, narration, commemoration, preservation, salutation, confirmation, congratulation, commendation, coronation, affirmation, admiration, acclamation, adoration, revelation, transformation...Music
Yes, Grateful Dead, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Flo and Eddie, Jethro Tull, Talking Heads, Cold Play, The Who, Pink Floyd, Uriah Heep, Black Thorn, Joan Baez, Harry Chapin, Renaissance, Moody Blues, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Asia, Simon & Garfunkel, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, T-Rex, Whist, February, The Coasters, Grin, Elton John, Natalie Merchant, The Kinks, Angelo Badalamenti, Julee Cruise, The B-52s, Devo, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Elvis Presley, It's a Beautiful Day, Circus Maximus, Rolling Stones, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, King Crimson, Genesis, Weird Al Yankovic, and the list goes on...


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Movies
All time favorites include 2001: A Space Odyssey, Altered States, Metropolis (restored version), Animal House (I lived it), Something About Mary, Until the End of the World, Dark City, Unbreakable, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, And Now for Something Completely Different, The Magic Christian, Head, J-Men Forever, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, Star Wars (all of them, but especially the first two and the last), Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., A.I., Star Trek II, III, IV, and XIII, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Singing in the Rain, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Godfather, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, The Deer Hunter, Annie Hall, Take the Money and Run, Bananas, Zelig, Radio Days, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie, The Conversation, Just Imagine, Shrek I & II, The Gold Rush, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Limelight, A Day at the Races, A Night at the Opera, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, Animal Crackers, Cocoanuts, Room Service, and the list goes on...Television
Battlestar Galactica, Sopranos, 24, South Park, The Office, Heroes, Boston Legal, The Office, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Jericho, Life on Mars, Smallville, Star Trek (all of the series, especially Deep Space Nine), Seinfeld, Larry David, Twin Peaks, Get Smart, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, SCTV, Lost in Space, My Mother the Car, Captain Nice, and the list goes on...Books
Favorite nonfiction authors: Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, Walter Ong, Lewis Mumford, Susanne K. Langer, Jacques Ellul, Dorothy Lee, Harold Innis, Eric Havelock, Daniel Boorstin, Walter Benjamin, Edward Sapir, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Norbert Wiener, Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, Jack Goody, Edmund Carpenter, Camille Paglia, Jay David Bolter, Joshua Meyrowitz, Paul Levinson, Doug Rushkoff, Tony Schwartz, Susan Sontag, Ivan Illich, Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Elizabeth Eisenstein, S. H. Steinberg, Niklas Luhmann, Paul Watzlawick, Erving Goffman, Kenneth Gergen, Kenneth Burke, Alfred Korzybski, Wendell Johnson, S. I. Hayakawa, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fritjof Capra, Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, Jacob Neusner, Lawrence Kushner, Albert Einstein, Moses et al., and the list goes on...
Favorite fiction authors include J.R.R. Tolkien (#1), Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Herman Hesse, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Gene Wolfe, Mary Shelley, Karel Capek, Edward Bellamy, Dan Simmons, Stanislaw Lem, Madeleine L'Engle, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, J. K. Rowling, Umberto Eco, Tom Wolfe, Dom DeLillo (Fordham alum!), Marleen Barr, Andrew Postman, Chuck Wachtel, Paul Levinson, Doug Rushkoff, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Mark Helprin, E. L. Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Dr. Seuss, Margaret Wise Brown, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Lewis Carroll, Norton Juster, Edwin A. Abbott, Lemony Snicket, A. E. van Vogt, Orson Scott Card, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Miguel de Cervantes, and the list goes on...
Favorite poets include J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Hunter, Jerry Harp, David Sobelman, Homer, Ovid, William Shakespeare, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Emma Lazarus, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Lear, Julia Ward Howe, Robert Forst, W. H. Auden, Maya Angelou, and the list goes on...
Favorite comics creators include Alan Moore, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Scott Adams, Art Spielgelman, Gardner Fox, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Sergio Aragonés, Grant Morrison, Julius Schwartz, Paul Levitz, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Charles Schulz, Gary Trudeau, Burke Breathed, Bill Watterson, George Herriman, Walt Kelly, Fred Hembeck, Doug Rushkoff, and the list goes on...
My Books: Echoes and Reflections: On Media Ecology as a Field of Study... Legacy of McLuhan... Communication and Cyberspace... Critical Studies in Media Commercialism...
Heroes
Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, Walter Ong, Lewis Mumford, Susanne Langer, Jacques Ellul, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stanley Kubrick, Charlie Chaplin, Martin Buber, Elie Wiesel, Isaac Luria, Albert Einstein, Liviu Librescu, Akiba ben Joseph, Elijah, Moses and Frodo Baggins, Spider-man, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Tom Seaver, Art Shamsky, Ron Swoboda, Tug McGraw, Willis Reed, Larry Csonka, Humphrey Bogart, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Paul Simon, Peter Yarrow, Harry Chapin, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman, Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rodney Dangerfield, Mel Brooks, Number Six, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, John Cleese, all of the Firesign Theatre, Ian Anderson, Frankenstein from Death Race 2000, Harpo Marx, Bugs Bunny, Tobor the 8th Man, Will Robinson, Charlie Brown, Benjamin J. Grimm, and the list goes on...
Latest Blog Entries
- Feb 5, 2012 9:48 PM as moments last
- Jan 29, 2012 4:27 PM Quicksilver
- Jan 22, 2012 1:47 PM ain' sof'
- Jan 14, 2012 12:40 PM electron-no!
- Jan 7, 2012 11:34 PM As the Crow Cries
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About me:
A Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City
Past President and Co-Founder of the Media Ecology Association
Past Executive Director of the Institute of General Semantics
Past President of the New York State Communication Association
Author of Echoes and Reflections: On Media Ecology as a Field of Study
Co-editor of several anthologies including Legacy of McLuhan and
Communication and Cyberspace
Supervisory Editor of the Media Ecology Book Series Published by Hampton Press
Parent of an Autistic Child and Advocate for Autism Awareness
Member of the Board of Trustees of Congregation Adas Emuno
owner of a Boston Terrier
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My Fordham faculty page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/strate/
You Can Read My Blog At: http://lancestrate.blogspot.com/
I'm on Twitter At: http://twitter.com/lancestrate
Check out the Institute of General Semantics
Check out the Media Ecology Association
and stay tuned...
.. ..Who I'd like to meet:
Anyone with a good heart, and half a brain.
Details
- Status: Married
- Here for: Networking
- Hometown: Kew Gardens
- Orientation: Straight
- Body type: 6' 0" / Some extra baggage
- Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
- Religion: Jewish
- Zodiac Sign: Virgo
- Children: Proud parent
- Smoke / Drink: No / Yes
- Education: Post grad
- Occupation: Speaker, Writer, Editor, Educator, Media Ecologist
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New York University
- New York, NY
- Graduated: 1991
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Major: Media Ecology
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Cuny Queens College
- Flushing, NY
- Graduated: 1981
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Master's Degree
- Major: Media Studies
1978 to 1980 -
Cornell University
- Ithaca, NY
- Graduated: 1978
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Major: Communication Arts
- Clubs: Mummies
- Greek: Beta Theta Pi
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Hillcrest Hs
- Jamaica Estates, NY
- Graduated: 1974
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: High School Diploma
1971 to 1974
Companies
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Fordham University
- Bronx, New York US
- Professor
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NeoPoiesis Press
- US
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