Phil Rose

Past-president of the Media Ecology Association (MEA) and a professional musician, Phil Rose (Ph.D.) has taught at a number of Canadian universities. He is author of the books Roger Waters and Pink Floyd: The Concept Albums (Fairleigh Dicinson University Press, 2015), Radiohead and the Global Movement for Change: ‘Pragmatism Not Idealism’ (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016), and, most recently, Radiohead: Music for a Global Future (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). In 2014, for the first time in its history, he hosted the annual convention of the MEA in Toronto at Ryerson University (now the Toronto Metropolitan University) on the theme ‘Confronting Technopoly’. In accordance with this event and its theme, he subsequently edited the book Confronting Technopoly: Charting a Course Towards Human Survival (Intellect Ltd, 2017). In 2019, he was the recipient of the MEA’s Edmund S. Carpenter Award for Career Achievement in Editing in the Field of Media Ecology, and, currently, he is president of The Tomkins Institute, an organization devoted to exploration of the work of the American personality and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins.