Is there any hope our private selves aren’t too far gone? Does total surveillance and data analytics pull our agency and very being inside-out? Are we becoming, as McLuhan said of Narcissus over fifty years ago, “the servomechanism of [our] own extended or repeated image?” Professor Derrick de Kerckhove, 25-year director of the McLuhan Center at the University of Toronto says, unreservedly, “yes!“

He sits down with host Clinton Ignatov for discussion on the soul-imperiling ramifications of digital media—and possible escapes from its labyrinth of your mind—in this inaugural episode of New Explorations Podcast.

Find the PDF of Professor de Kerckhove’s paper Three Looming Figures of the Digital Transformation in New Explorations Journal.

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