Mar 5, 2024
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 376, in which I interview Dan Abella in George's Cafe in Manhattan about The Mind Revolution Experience (March 14, 7-9pm at The Producer's Club, 358 W. 44th Street, NYC) and the upcoming Philip K. Dick Film Festival (April 4-7, Musuem of the Moving Image, and other places...
Jan 9, 2024
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 368, which I devote to consideration of tetrads for history and alternate history. Don't know what tetrads are? They're explained in the first few minutes of the podcast.
Read about Tetrads for History and Alternate History here.
Further reading on Tetrads: Laws of the...
Aug 26, 2021
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 188, in which Captain Phil on WUSB-FM Radio (Stony Brook, New York) interviews me about the Foundation series, how it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the news that just broke this morning about the bombings in Afghanistan. (Note: recorded before the news of the US...
Jul 23, 2020
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 130, in which I talk about one of the bedrocks of my "anthropotropic" theory of media evolution -- why some media, such as sight-only silent movies, are obliterated by the advent of newer media like "talkies" (sight and sound), in contrast to other media, such as sound-only...
Jul 17, 2020
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 129, in which I give you a little primer about "media determinism," the bedrock of just about all media studies.
Further listening: Politics and Media in History and Voice Mail from Marshall McLuhan, 1978
Further reading: The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the...