This book brings together an impressive collection of essays that explore the growing complexity, range, and reach of media commercialism in today's world. From the corporate conglomeration of today's media giants to the effects of advertising on politics, society, and the individual, this collection provides a comprehensive and insightful critique of both the impact and the limits of media commercialism.

Candy: A Collection To Satisfy Your Sweetest Cravings, is an eclectic collection which ranges from the romantic to the taboo and from the intimate to the voyeuristic. With sensitivity, passion and at times humor, these poems capture the delights of sex, sexuality, love, lust and fantasy. From the Introduction ]the gratification offered by the form of erotic poetry mirrors the gratification we may gain from its content. And so, we may admire the craft that went into the making of the poem, perhaps even dissect the technique, or we may, at the other extreme, find ourselves in a Pygmalion-like...

This second edition, published in response to the recent Korzybski revival, adds new introductory material and a revised index, providing an accessible introduction to Korzybski's arguments concerning the need for a non-Aristotelian approach to knowledge, thought, perception, and language, to coincide with non-Newtonian physics and non-Euclidean geometries.

"Selections from Science and Sanity" represents Korzybski's authorized abridgement of his magnum opus, "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics." It features new introductory material and a revised index.

Strate examines how symbols and media are used to relate to the environment, and how different modes of perception and communication influence human consciousness, culture, and social organization. His essays draw upon and integrate the perspectives of general semantics, systems theory, and media ecology.

Strate explores how people use symbols and media to relate to their environment, and how different modes of perception and communication influence human consciousness, culture, and social organization.

About The Author
Lance Strate is a native New Yorker, having been born in Manhattan, and moved out to Queens two weeks later, and now working in the Bronx and living in New Jersey, just across the Hudson in SopranoLand. He writes. A lot. Well, not as much as some, but still, quite a bit. His poetry has been published in " Poetica Magazine, KronoScope, Anekaant, ETC, Explorations in Media Ecology, General Semantics Bulletin, " and several anthologies, including "Candy," and "The Medium is the Muse: Channeling Marshall McLuhan." He has written comedy and humor for a zine and local access...

Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition provides a long-awaited and much anticipated introduction to media ecology, a field of inquiry defined as the study of media as environments. Lance Strate presents a clear and concise explanation of an intellectual tradition concerned with much more than understanding media, but rather with understanding the conditions that shape us as human beings, drive human history, and determine the prospects for our survival as a species.

Much more than a summary, this book represents a new synthesis that moves...