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Frank Zingrone

Professor of Communication

Author, Speaker, Media Critic, Communications Consultant, Poet

Expertise: Information Analyst, Non-Verbal Communication.

Senior Scholar Emeritus
    York University, Toronto, ON

  

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zingf@yorku.ca

The paradoxical reality of Electric Process demonstrates how everything is both itself and something else, a figure perceived against a complex ground. We explore these communications ideas as styles of perception and not as fixed notions proceeding from concepts and theories.

Speaker:   Available for groups and institutions

Recent Engagements:

  • ROM Royal Ontario Museum, "The Archeology of Modern Language"

  • Glendon College, "Addiction to Illusion: Discovery of the Global Mind"

  • The Couchiching Conference, "Globalism and Tribalism: The New World Disorder"

  • Media Ecology Assn., Fordham U., NY, "Virtuality and McLuhan's 'World as Art Form'"

  • Psychiatric Conference, University of Toronto, "Hysteria and Hyper-Reality"

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Books

Addiction to Illusion: Discovering the Global Mind, Frank Zingrone (Forthcoming) Fall 2005.

The Media Symplex: At the Edge of Meaning in the Age of Chaos, Frank Zingrone (Stoddart, Toronto) 2001. Paperback Edition 2004, Hampton Press, NJ.) Fordham Communication Series info

Essential McLuhan, Eric McLuhan & Frank Zingrone (Stoddart/Anansi, Toronto) & (Basic Books, New York) 1996. (ten editions and eight languages) info

Who Was Marshall McLuhan, Barrington Nevitt, F.D. Zingrone et al., eds., (Stoddart, Toronto) 1995. info

On McLuhan: Forward Through the Rearview Mirror, reminiscences by Paglia, Lapham, Postman et al., (Prentice Hall, Toronto & New York) 1996. info

Understanding McLuhan, CD-ROM, Southam Interactive/Voyager,Toronto/New York, 1996

Traces, poetry, Paradigm Communications, Toronto.

Strange Attraction, poetry, Columbo & Company, Toronto.

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Biography

St. Michael's College School, Toronto
University of Western Ontario, London, B.A. (Valedictorian - King's College)
University of Toronto, M.A. (Honours)
SUNY-Buffalo, Ph.D. (Work with original Joyce materials)
Post-graduate:  MIT, Old Dominion Fellowship Sabbatical Study,
Harvard University, Widener Library

Schola Cantorum, St. Michael's Cathedral School, Toronto
SUNY - Buffalo
University of Toronto
MIT:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
York University, Toronto

Interests and Expertise:

Frank Zingrone is a media critic, poet and cultural historian, who works with the communication ideas of Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis, by building new ideas on their pioneering bases.  He works in the intellectual environment characterized by many of the following scholars who epitomize the mergence of the arts and sciences under electric conditions.  The new work involves Chaos and Complexity Theory, the Philosophy of Science and Technology:

Edmund Carpenter, Walter Ong, E.T Hall, Jacques Ellul, Lewis Mumford, Daniel Boorstin, Jean Baudrillard, Ilya Prigogine, Neil Postman, Richard Lanham, Donald Theall, N. Katherine Hayles, Michael Polanyi, Mircea Eliade, Colin Cherry, Heisenberg, Bohr, Thomas Pynchon, Don Delillo, Eliot, Pound, Joyce, et al.

Media Appearances:

(selected) Imprint, TVO, Newsworld, CBC - Toronto, CBC National News, CTV National News, CITY_TV Toronto, McLuhan's Wake, film documentary (voiceovers), CPAC - TV, Couchiching Conference, CKVR-TV Kitchener, CHCH-TV Hamilton, numerous radio appearances.

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Links

Sampler of more than 50 Published articles:

McLuhan Studies Vol 1 - Laws of Media: The Pentad and Technical Syncretism

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Multimedia Produces Symplexity - Psychiatric Services Journal Article

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Electric Reality, Retribalization and the Global Village:  Japan's Econo-War with the United States

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A Psychic Visitation by the White Goddess, Courtesy the Media

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T.S. Eliot  His Debt to Sherlock Holmes

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Globalization and Artificial Intelligence

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Tensions

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From The Media Symplex:

"The Medium always re-enters content"

"The content of the content is the medium"

"The medium and the message are swiftly merging"

"In electric culture everything is both simple and complex at the same time"

"Communication grows complex like a nervous system or a tree, branching out to reach even further up toward the light."

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Contact email:  zingf@yorku.ca