Corey Anton
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Introduction | Professor of Communication Studies at Grand Valley State University, Past Editor of the journal Explorations in Media Ecology, and Past-Chair of the Semiotics and Communication Division of the National Communication Association, I am a Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, and currently serve as the Vice-President of the Institute of General Semantics. My books include Selfhood and Authenticity, Sources of Significance: Worldly Rejuvenation and Neo-Stoic Heroism, Valuation and Media Ecology: Ethics, Morals, and Laws, and Communication Uncovered: General Semantics and Media Ecology. |
| Interests | Juggling, Cooking, Travel, Reading, Rollerblading. |
| Favorite 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. |
| Favorite 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 |
| Favorite 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. |