I love teaching, reading, writing, and the on-going collective haggle known as "study."
For recreation and relaxation, I like to travel, cook, rollerblade, bike, and juggle. (link to my YouTube profile)
Music
Phish, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Soul Coughing, Beck, Buckwheat Zydeco, Jerry Garcia, Eric Burdon, India.Arie, John Lee Hooker, Dusty Springfield, Sarah Vaughan, Barry White, Blind Faith, Canned Heat, Reverent Horton Heat, The Exploited, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, Black Flag, Annie Lennox, Ray Charles, Ravi Shankar, Hinda Hoffman, Joe Cocker, Sarah Brightman, Hot Tuna, Aretha Franklin, Rush, Johnny Socko, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Gipsy Kings, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Traffic, Roger Waters, Tom Waits, Black Sabbath, Mickey Hart, Rusted Root, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, Buckshot LeFonque, Frank Zappa, among many others. For some of my most recent musical interests go to the venetian snares radio player in my "lastfm" blog.
Movies
Antonia's Line, The Life of Brian, The Meaning of Life, The Holy Grail, The Jerk, Altered States, Gattica, Mindwalk, The Island, Idiocracy, Ruthless People, Other People's Money, The Wall, A Little Night Music, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Husbands and Wives, Fierce Creatures, Austin Powers, Twilight Zone: the Movie, pi, The Lion in Winter, Time Bandits, Dreamscape, Rooster Cogburn, Princess Bride, Shrek, A Day at the Races, Star Trek I, II, III, IV, V, etc., Duck Soup, Waking Life, Naked Lunch, A Taste of Cherry, all the Star Wars, Battle Beyond the Stars, among many others.
Television
How about some pictures from Greece 2006 instead?
Books
My own work is a multi-disciplinary integration of, roughly, five scholarly traditions: dramatistic rhetoric (Kenneth Burke, Erving Goffman, and, Ernest Becker), existential phenomenology (Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau Ponty, early Mikhail M. Bakhtin as well as John Stewart, Drew Leder, and, Calvin O. Schrag), interactional semiotics (Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Walker Percy, and, Anthony Wilden), humanistic communication theory, (Susanne K. Langer, John Dewey, Martin Buber, and, Lee Thayer), and finally, the New York, St. Louis & Toronto schools of media ecology (Marshall McLuhan, Walter J. Ong, Eric Havelock, Neil Postman, and David Olson).
Other scholars I have learned from and would like to talk about are: Friedrich Nietzsche, David Bohm, Georg Simmel, Juliet Schor, Bill McKibben, Morris Berman, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Seneca, Martha Nussbaum, Joseph Campbell, Carlos Castaneda, Alfred Korzybski, Wendell Johnson, William James, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul Goodman, Edmund Carpenter, Dorothy Lee, Leonard Shlain, Stephen A. Tyler, David K. Reynolds, Paul Carse, William Barrett, Alphonso Lingis, Hans Jonas, Edward Casey, Michael Zimmerman, Hubert Dreyfus, and many others.
For more of my favorite books and "Essential Essays" on communication theory, please see my Recommended Readings blog. (For fun and edification see Barry Liss's Freak Page).
Heroes
Epictetus , Robert Maynard Hutchins , Antoine de Saint-Exupery , and, anyone else who understands the art of cultivating soul.
Professor, Phenomenologist, Communication Theorist
Corey Anton's Schools
Purdue University-Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN
Graduated: 1998
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Ph.D.
Major: Interpersonal Communication Theory and Phenomenology
Minor: Rhetoric and Social Process
Clubs: Phi Kappa Phi
1994 to 1998
Illinois State University
Normal, IL
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Speech Communication
Minor: Rhetoric
Who I'd like to meet:
I like to meet people who are carefully building their libraries, who enjoy travel, and who love ideas and learning. People who know how to get into any of the following ideas:
"Most people prefer problems they 'just can't solve' to solutions they just don't like."--Lee Thayer
"Many 'observations' are but implications of the particular terminology in terms of which the observations are made. In brief, much that we take as observations about reality may be but the spinning out of possibilities implicit in our particular choice of terms." --Kenneth Burke
"To exist is to plagiarize."--Cioran
"Only that in you which is me can hear what I am saying."--Baba Ram Dass
"Any interpretation which is to contribute understanding must already have understood what is to be interpreted." --Martin Heiddegger
Douglas Hofsteader puzzles: "What would this sentence be like if it were not self-referential?"
"Peaches are too good to act as words; we are too much interested in peaches themselves. But little noises are the ideal conveyers of concepts, for they give us nothing but their meaning."--Susanne K. Langer
"Expressive operations take place between thinking language and speaking thought; not, as we thoughtlessly say, between thought and language.” --Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"We always express our thoughts with the words that lie at hand… we have at any moment only the thought for which we have at hand the words."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"The collision of two galaxies and the salivation of Pavlov's dog, different as they are, are far more alike than either is like the simplest act of naming. Naming stands at a far greater distance from Pavlov's dog than the latter does from a galactic collision."--Walker Percy
"No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest." --Bertrand Russell
Lee Thayer asks us: "And what shall we say of that which doesn't exist until we say it ?"
"We have to be something before we can know anything. And when we have become something...the something we can know is less than the something we have become."-- Allen Wheelis
And,...I always like to meet fellow MEDIA ECOLOGISTS:
Hope this day finds you well, and that it fills you with a sense of awe and wonder in the world. Have a wonderful weekend. I've enjoyed listening to your youtube topics. Thank you for sharing those topics with us.
For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart.There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I travel—looking, looking, breathlessly.
~ Carlos Castaneda The Teachings of Don Juan : A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Hi Professor! Just wanted to say thank you for posting videos of your thoughts. I especially liked the video of you talking about Constructive Living because I've been having some life changing experiences lately. I'm looking to change my attitude about a lot of things in life and really want to become more motivated to get things done that will benefit my well being. Anyway, hope all is well for you! Take care!
Peace.. Love.. Music Hello Corey Its a Pleasure to meet you:) Great to have your Friendship & also allowing me to share my music Hope you are having a Beautiful week!! All the Best! xx Trice
I think u'll enjoy this one. It's pretty cool but also a little creepy too LOL. You'll need to follow these directions EXACTLY to get the proper results. Put the followwing into the address-bar of your web-browser. Type ur favorite number between 1 and 999 & then type a dot & then type your favorite color & then type a dot & then type one word that best describes your mood & then type a dot & then type the word retwistic & then type a dot & then type com & then click enter. Let me know how it turns out for you.
Hey! My caller id shows I missed a call from you & val yesterday....boo hoo! We were at Hinkley Park with the whole family for the summer bdays (very fun). I will call you guys this week, or call anytime in the evening. Hope you're both well and miss you very much! Love, Nat
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