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B.W. Powe

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B. W. Powe has been called “an original,” “a visionary” and “adventurous and unclassifiable.”

He is an author, speaker, poet, critic, journalist, teacher and organizer of media events. Powe’s major publications include The Solitary Outlaw, where he explored the role of the intellectual in a post-literate age by profiling Marshall McLuhan, Glenn Gould, Elias Canetti, Wyndham Lewis, Pierre Trudeau.

His other works include A Canadian of Light, a philosophical work that has become an influential contemplation of the promise of Canada in the new transnational electronic sphere, and Outage, which describes and evokes the effects of mass media on a lone individual. The Globe and Mail called it “the first television novel” and “way-cool.” Outage was also the first book to be launched electronically on the then new Bravo! Television station.

Powe was born in Ottawa, has taught at York University in the departments of English and Fine Arts Cultural Studies, and has also instructed at the Schulich School of Business since 1987.