The book launch of The Digital Reversal.
The McLuhan Salon, University of Toronto, November 2025.
Presentation “Does AI need self-consciousness? The technological imperative as a substitute for agency” at the 26th Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association. Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, June 2025.
With Martin Gurri at the Annual Stigler conference
“Economic Concentration and the Marketplace of Ideas.”
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. April 2025.
With Paolo Granata, the Toronto School of Communication.
University of Toronto, December 2024.
With Paul Levinson, Cape Cod, July 2024.
Debating the message of the medium with Andrew McLuhan.
The 25th Media Ecology Association Convention
at Daemen Univercity, Amherst, NY, June 2024.


12-hour McLuhanesque intellectual marathon exploring the post-pandemic world and celebrating Marshall McLuhan’s 110th birthday. Organized by Paolo Granata, July 20, 2020.


With Douglas Rushkoff at the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology (The Coach House), University of Toronto, April 2016.

A workshop on corporate communications. While the audience works, the coach eats pirozhki. April 2016.

With Eric McLuhan, somewhere near Toronto after a Monday Night seminar in the Coach House. October 2015.

Celebrating re-launch of McLuhan’s Coach House in the 21 Century. Andrey Mir, Andrew McLuhan, Paolo Granata, and Rita Leistner, the author of an amazing book, Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan. Toronto, October 2015.

The Banking Forum FinInternet-2014. Delivering the talk “The explosion of authorship. How emancipated authorship impacts media, marketing, business, banking, and orthography.”

At a conference for press secretaries and corporate journalists at the United Metallurgical Company, with Cat the Steel Worker, 2014.

“The future of media and future media”, the open lecture at the Moscow State University, October 2013.



















