So hello everybody. I would like to introduce you to Christian Roy.

Christian is an independent scholar. He has written a book on traditional festivals, which you can

probably see just behind us here. He is on the International Jacques Eululul's

Society Board. So he's an expert on Jacques Eululul. He's also an expert on technicity, the media.

And he also happens to be a member of my parish and a friend of mine.

And so we've been talking for a while about symbolism.

He also has a very deep interest in orthodoxy and symbolism and how all of this comes together.

And so we're going to have a discussion,

which is going to center around technicity, the author Jacques Elyle, who he's an expert on,

but it'll probably spill over into all kinds of interesting things. And so I'm really

looking forward to talking with him.

No. forward to talking with him. This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

Maybe you can tell us a little bit more about yourself, and maybe a little bit about the... You were just at a conference just now in Toronto.

Maybe you can tell us a bit about that.

Yes, it was the 28th annual conference of the Media Ecology Association.

It was in Toronto, which happens to be one of the seats of, in a sense, of reflection on media as an issue, in a sense, philosophically, but also

practically. There's such a thing as the Toronto School of Communication, including such

luminaries as Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye, the great biblical scholar, even Glenn Gould, the pianist, that had some interesting

thought and practice around the new uses of media. The list could go on. But one can point out here that for many of these people, I want to take also of the

ridges with father Walter J. Ong, who worked on the contrast between oral and written

alphabetic cultures. Many of these thinkers, many of these thinkers have in common that they have a very deep

personal faith that informs all their thinking.

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