Technological Forms and Ecological Communication

Piyush Mathur is an independent scholar.

• ContentsAcknowledgments PrefaceList of FiguresChapter 1: Technology, Ecology, & CommunicationChapter 2: In Apprehending Technology, Bypass the Foucauldian FrameworkChapter 3: Science Defined in Terms of Object Versus Method of Study: The Problematics of the Two ApproachesChapter 4: Diverse Objects, Diverse Subjects: An Inquest into a State of Pre- Fragmentation Termed ScienceChapter 5:The Argument Concerning the Christian-Religious Inception of ScienceChapter 6: Mystique & Domination: A Matter of Mutual ReinforcementThe Theological Substructure of the Dominant Notion of ScienceChapter 7: Some Terminological Revelations Through European History: The Invalidity of Science as a Theoretical ConceptChapter 8: Science: A Basket CategoryAnd why Science-Technology Differential Matters to CommunicationChapter 9: An Eco-Communicative Theory of TechnologyChapter 10: The Principle of Proximation: Proximate & Distant TechnologiesChapter 11: The Principle of Temporality: Newer, Older, Obsolete, & Antiquated TechnologiesChapter 12: The Principle of Concentration: Concentrative & Disseminative TechnologiesChapter 13: The Principle of Anthropocentrism: Meat Technologies; Technologies of Polity; Communication TechnologiesChapter 14: The Principle of Uncertainty: Uncertain TechnologiesChapter 15: The Unprincipled Case of the Technologies of DevelopmentChapter 16: Conclusion BibliographyAbout the Author

Mathur’s classifications can serve as the basis of further investigation into the relationship between mass communication, technologies, and ecology and stimulate the intellectual development of the field of eco-communication. Readers will do well by keeping some technologies of interest in mind as they follow the chronicles. On the whole, Technological Forms constitutes a substantial resource for communication scholars, philosophers of technology, those engaged in environmental studies and development studies as well as historians and philosophers of science.