Still wondering WTF after all these years http://www.timpenner.ca/trpdw/ 2026-05-02T10:44:23+00:00 http://www.timpenner.ca/trpdw/ http://www.timpenner.ca/trpdw/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2025-03-02T20:41:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.timpenner.ca/trpdw/doku.php?id=theorists:chomsky_noam&rev=1740948070&do=diff Chomsky, Noam I don’t know how I got as far as I did into this without realizing that Chomsky’s work had conditioned much of what I understood about language. Now that I have some references, (Chomsky, 1998, Chomsky, 2006, Chomsky, 2016, and Chomsky, 2016b), I can see that the nature of language and its intimacy with thinking and consciousness contribute significantly to my work. See also text/html 2025-03-02T18:35:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.timpenner.ca/trpdw/doku.php?id=theorists:clark_andy&rev=1740940501&do=diff Clark, Andy Clark's work that interests me is about cognitive extension through media. His fundamental premise is that cognition is not bound by the thing called brain or skull or skinbag, a mode of theorizing he calls brainbound. He terms the opposing paradigm text/html 2025-03-02T19:02:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.timpenner.ca/trpdw/doku.php?id=theorists:gardiner_w_lambert&rev=1740942134&do=diff Gardiner, W. Lambert (Scot) Scot Gardiner cand from a psychology background into communication and his latter works were based in history of media and psychology of communication. This resonates with my work because of his connection to media as intelligence amplifiers and extensions of mind - very much Toronto School. text/html 2025-03-02T19:07:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.timpenner.ca/trpdw/doku.php?id=theorists:heim_michael&rev=1740942434&do=diff Heim, Michael I was first attracted to Michael Heim by the title of one of his most notable books, Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing (see Heim, 1999). Having finally decided to read it carefully (in May/June 2010), I see that Heim is well ahead of me in many respects, but that my ideas are still somewhat unique and augment Heim's work. text/html 2025-03-02T19:11:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.timpenner.ca/trpdw/doku.php?id=theorists:hofstadter_douglas&rev=1740942711&do=diff Hofstadter, Douglas It's not possible for me to exaggerate Hofstadter's influence on my thinking. It's he that made me believe that people's general ignorance of computing, technology and cognition are a hindrance. The Jesus nut of my work, reflexivity, is actually derivative of his strange loop concept. And it's he that gave me my formative framework for understanding and explaining such things. Hofstadter's purpose along the way was to explain artificial intelligence (AI) and the likelihood o… text/html 2025-03-02T19:20:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.timpenner.ca/trpdw/doku.php?id=theorists:innis_harold&rev=1740943211&do=diff Innis, Harold If Marshall McLuhan is the father of Canadian-based communication theory, Harold Innis the grand-father. McLuhan was one of this students and eventually said that his work is just footnotes to that of Innis. External links: * A biography * text/html 2025-03-02T19:26:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.timpenner.ca/trpdw/doku.php?id=theorists:mcluhan_marshall&rev=1740943617&do=diff McLuhan, Marshal We're all thrilled to be the same nationality as Marshall McLuhan. * The Official Site of Marshall McLuhan * The Patron Saint of Wired magazine * The Playboy Interview * Wikipedia