I start this article by noting the lack of a sustained theoretical engagement between the discour... more I start this article by noting the lack of a sustained theoretical engagement between the discourses concerning the information society and environmentalism, and contrasting that lack with the environmentalists' practical usage of information technology. Explaining why ...
... could protect the territories of the Country House-Man from the feminine reterritorialisation... more ... could protect the territories of the Country House-Man from the feminine reterritorialisation, among other ... in their behaviour before they appear in public than afterwards” (MP, p. 45). ... tensions the Park had been suppressing, of deregularising its lines, of reterritorialising the Park ...
How are we to comprehend those events that muscle their way into shap-ing the manner in which we ... more How are we to comprehend those events that muscle their way into shap-ing the manner in which we understand them? On the assumption that the May 1998 Indian nuclear tests constitute one such event, I attempt in this essay to evince the means of such a comprehension. Toward ...
This is a review essay on The WMD Mirage: Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise ... more This is a review essay on The WMD Mirage: Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War (ed. Craig R Whitney), 2005
This is a review of a book, Inside Animal Hearts and Minds, by Belinda Recio; it came out in The ... more This is a review of a book, Inside Animal Hearts and Minds, by Belinda Recio; it came out in The Earth Island Journal in 2018.
ये लेख १८ दिसंबर, २००३ के भारतीय सर्वोच्च न्यायालय के उस निर्णय की आलोचनात्मक समीक्षा है जिसके आध... more ये लेख १८ दिसंबर, २००३ के भारतीय सर्वोच्च न्यायालय के उस निर्णय की आलोचनात्मक समीक्षा है जिसके आधार पर भारतीय शिक्षा प्रणाली में पर्यावरण-संबंधी मुद्दों को शामिल किया गया था। यह लेख जनवरी ६, २००४ में एशिया टाइम्स में प्रकाशित हुआ था।
Having witnessed one New York Times (NYT) reporter, Judith Miller, cool her heels in prison for r... more Having witnessed one New York Times (NYT) reporter, Judith Miller, cool her heels in prison for refusing to disclose her sources to special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald in a case ultimately related to the erstwhile American quest for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD), it feels ironical to review The WMD Mirage, a volume edited and introduced by another NYT journalist, Craig R. Whitney, on precisely that quest. While Whitney does not deserve to be compared with Miller (what with the latter's notoriously unethical reporting of the Iraq war), assiduous newsreaders and political analysts are liable to find his present journalistic outreach to have little intention of contracting the circle of misinformation and propaganda of which Miller has been not an insignificant source. On the surface, Whitney's volume—most of whose contents are disparately available on the Internet—is a mature (though meandering and lifeless) exercise at straightening out a complex bureaucratic maze for the common reader; in effect, it is a marketable re-packaging of the United States' (US') political establishment's position on the hunt for Iraq's WMD and on Operation Iraqi Freedom.
I start this article by noting the lack of a sustained theoretical engagement between the discour... more I start this article by noting the lack of a sustained theoretical engagement between the discourses concerning the information society and environmentalism, and contrasting that lack with the environmentalists' practical usage of information technology. Explaining why this discrepancy requires probing, I go on to introduce and interpret a European report that brings the aforementioned discourses together via its blueprint for ecological communication in the information society. Further, noting the contextual significance of development, I argue that the report uniquely places ecological communication between development and the information society, on the one hand, and environmentalism and the information society, on the other. I also underline the report's significance in disciplinary terms—contrasting its conceptualizations with the underlying orthodoxies of the academic discipline of ecological communication [EC]. On another level, I deem the report a culmination of post-1990 European efforts at developing an eco-informational and eco-communicational dimension to its environmental policy. Here, I introduce the key efforts, outlining their contributions and the broader factors contributing to their orientation and substance. I conclude the article by illustrating the report's distinction from those efforts, elucidating the report's novel conception of ecological communication, and speculating about the reasons behind the re-port's continued neglect within the intellectual realm (and outside the European environmental policy circles).
In this paper I critically explicate Niklas Luhmann's treatise Ecological Communication (1989). L... more In this paper I critically explicate Niklas Luhmann's treatise Ecological Communication (1989). Locating this rather neglected treatise against the backdrop of the embryonic and amorphous academic field of environmental (or ecological) communication (EC), I argue that the treatise provides the only comprehensive conceptual definition of ecological or environmental communication—and it thus deserves attention as well as scrutiny. Past my detailed explication of Luhmann's key concepts, I register my deep disagreements with his philosophy and speculate about why his treatise may have suffered neglect within EC. Briefly mentioning critical traditionalism, I also suggest alternatives to Luhmann's theoretical framework. I devote the last section of the paper to my vision for the future of EC.
This article compares two novels, 120 years apart, which have at their centres the English countr... more This article compares two novels, 120 years apart, which have at their centres the English country house with all its social and economic implications. It contrasts the treatment of the women and men who inhabit such houses and the ways in which they are controlled-or not a controlled – by the iconic " Country House-Man ". Both Hetton and Mansfield are highly successful representations of gendered space, belonging inescapably to the periods in which they were written, but superimposing the two works adds depth to the reader's understanding of both.
This is a report on Erica Fudge's book Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes: People and Their Animals i... more This is a report on Erica Fudge's book Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes: People and Their Animals in Early Modern England (Cornell University Press: 2018).
This is a review of Jocelyne Porcher's book, translated from the French into English, _The Ethics... more This is a review of Jocelyne Porcher's book, translated from the French into English, _The Ethics of Animal Labor: A Collaborative Utopia_ (Palgrave Macmillan: 2017); it came out in Acres USA (November 2018), 48: 11: 86-87.
ये अमर्त्यो सेन की पुस्तक _विकास जैसे स्वतंत्रता_ की समीक्षा है|
This is a review essay on Amart... more ये अमर्त्यो सेन की पुस्तक _विकास जैसे स्वतंत्रता_ की समीक्षा है|
This is a review essay on Amartya Sen's book _Development as Freedom_.
Review of Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium (eds. Marcelo M. Suárez-Oro... more Review of Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium (eds. Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco & Desirée Baolian Qin-Hillard) (2004)
I start this article by noting the lack of a sustained theoretical engagement between the discour... more I start this article by noting the lack of a sustained theoretical engagement between the discourses concerning the information society and environmentalism, and contrasting that lack with the environmentalists' practical usage of information technology. Explaining why ...
... could protect the territories of the Country House-Man from the feminine reterritorialisation... more ... could protect the territories of the Country House-Man from the feminine reterritorialisation, among other ... in their behaviour before they appear in public than afterwards” (MP, p. 45). ... tensions the Park had been suppressing, of deregularising its lines, of reterritorialising the Park ...
How are we to comprehend those events that muscle their way into shap-ing the manner in which we ... more How are we to comprehend those events that muscle their way into shap-ing the manner in which we understand them? On the assumption that the May 1998 Indian nuclear tests constitute one such event, I attempt in this essay to evince the means of such a comprehension. Toward ...
This is a review essay on The WMD Mirage: Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise ... more This is a review essay on The WMD Mirage: Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War (ed. Craig R Whitney), 2005
This is a review of a book, Inside Animal Hearts and Minds, by Belinda Recio; it came out in The ... more This is a review of a book, Inside Animal Hearts and Minds, by Belinda Recio; it came out in The Earth Island Journal in 2018.
ये लेख १८ दिसंबर, २००३ के भारतीय सर्वोच्च न्यायालय के उस निर्णय की आलोचनात्मक समीक्षा है जिसके आध... more ये लेख १८ दिसंबर, २००३ के भारतीय सर्वोच्च न्यायालय के उस निर्णय की आलोचनात्मक समीक्षा है जिसके आधार पर भारतीय शिक्षा प्रणाली में पर्यावरण-संबंधी मुद्दों को शामिल किया गया था। यह लेख जनवरी ६, २००४ में एशिया टाइम्स में प्रकाशित हुआ था।
Having witnessed one New York Times (NYT) reporter, Judith Miller, cool her heels in prison for r... more Having witnessed one New York Times (NYT) reporter, Judith Miller, cool her heels in prison for refusing to disclose her sources to special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald in a case ultimately related to the erstwhile American quest for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD), it feels ironical to review The WMD Mirage, a volume edited and introduced by another NYT journalist, Craig R. Whitney, on precisely that quest. While Whitney does not deserve to be compared with Miller (what with the latter's notoriously unethical reporting of the Iraq war), assiduous newsreaders and political analysts are liable to find his present journalistic outreach to have little intention of contracting the circle of misinformation and propaganda of which Miller has been not an insignificant source. On the surface, Whitney's volume—most of whose contents are disparately available on the Internet—is a mature (though meandering and lifeless) exercise at straightening out a complex bureaucratic maze for the common reader; in effect, it is a marketable re-packaging of the United States' (US') political establishment's position on the hunt for Iraq's WMD and on Operation Iraqi Freedom.
I start this article by noting the lack of a sustained theoretical engagement between the discour... more I start this article by noting the lack of a sustained theoretical engagement between the discourses concerning the information society and environmentalism, and contrasting that lack with the environmentalists' practical usage of information technology. Explaining why this discrepancy requires probing, I go on to introduce and interpret a European report that brings the aforementioned discourses together via its blueprint for ecological communication in the information society. Further, noting the contextual significance of development, I argue that the report uniquely places ecological communication between development and the information society, on the one hand, and environmentalism and the information society, on the other. I also underline the report's significance in disciplinary terms—contrasting its conceptualizations with the underlying orthodoxies of the academic discipline of ecological communication [EC]. On another level, I deem the report a culmination of post-1990 European efforts at developing an eco-informational and eco-communicational dimension to its environmental policy. Here, I introduce the key efforts, outlining their contributions and the broader factors contributing to their orientation and substance. I conclude the article by illustrating the report's distinction from those efforts, elucidating the report's novel conception of ecological communication, and speculating about the reasons behind the re-port's continued neglect within the intellectual realm (and outside the European environmental policy circles).
In this paper I critically explicate Niklas Luhmann's treatise Ecological Communication (1989). L... more In this paper I critically explicate Niklas Luhmann's treatise Ecological Communication (1989). Locating this rather neglected treatise against the backdrop of the embryonic and amorphous academic field of environmental (or ecological) communication (EC), I argue that the treatise provides the only comprehensive conceptual definition of ecological or environmental communication—and it thus deserves attention as well as scrutiny. Past my detailed explication of Luhmann's key concepts, I register my deep disagreements with his philosophy and speculate about why his treatise may have suffered neglect within EC. Briefly mentioning critical traditionalism, I also suggest alternatives to Luhmann's theoretical framework. I devote the last section of the paper to my vision for the future of EC.
This article compares two novels, 120 years apart, which have at their centres the English countr... more This article compares two novels, 120 years apart, which have at their centres the English country house with all its social and economic implications. It contrasts the treatment of the women and men who inhabit such houses and the ways in which they are controlled-or not a controlled – by the iconic " Country House-Man ". Both Hetton and Mansfield are highly successful representations of gendered space, belonging inescapably to the periods in which they were written, but superimposing the two works adds depth to the reader's understanding of both.
This is a report on Erica Fudge's book Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes: People and Their Animals i... more This is a report on Erica Fudge's book Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes: People and Their Animals in Early Modern England (Cornell University Press: 2018).
This is a review of Jocelyne Porcher's book, translated from the French into English, _The Ethics... more This is a review of Jocelyne Porcher's book, translated from the French into English, _The Ethics of Animal Labor: A Collaborative Utopia_ (Palgrave Macmillan: 2017); it came out in Acres USA (November 2018), 48: 11: 86-87.
ये अमर्त्यो सेन की पुस्तक _विकास जैसे स्वतंत्रता_ की समीक्षा है|
This is a review essay on Amart... more ये अमर्त्यो सेन की पुस्तक _विकास जैसे स्वतंत्रता_ की समीक्षा है|
This is a review essay on Amartya Sen's book _Development as Freedom_.
Review of Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium (eds. Marcelo M. Suárez-Oro... more Review of Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium (eds. Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco & Desirée Baolian Qin-Hillard) (2004)
ये हरबंस मुखिया की पुस्तक _भारत के मुग़ल_ की समीक्षा है |
This is a review of Harban's Mukhia's b... more ये हरबंस मुखिया की पुस्तक _भारत के मुग़ल_ की समीक्षा है |
This is a review of Harban's Mukhia's book _The Mughals of India_.
This is a review essay on Soe Myint’s _Burma File: A Question of Democracy_ (2004), published in... more This is a review essay on Soe Myint’s _Burma File: A Question of Democracy_ (2004), published in Asia Times Online on December 18, 2004.
ये सो मिंट की अंग्रेज़ी पुस्तक <बर्मा फाइल: सवाल गणतंत्र का> (२००४) की एक विस्तृत समीक्षा है जो एशिया टाइम्स ऑनलाइन पर दिसम्बर १८, २००४ में प्रकाशित हुई थी |
This is a review essay on Khushwant Singh's book The End of India; it was published on March 13, ... more This is a review essay on Khushwant Singh's book The End of India; it was published on March 13, 2004 on Asia Times Online. It could be accessed online at this URL: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FC13Df01.htm
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Technology, Ecology... more Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Technology, Ecology, & Communication
Chapter 2: In Apprehending Technology, Bypass the Foucauldian Framework
Chapter 3: Science Defined in Terms of Object Versus Method of Study: The Problematics of the Two Approaches
Chapter 4: Diverse Objects, Diverse Subjects: An Inquest into a State of Pre- Fragmentation Termed Science
Chapter 5:The Argument Concerning the Christian-Religious Inception of Science
Chapter 6: Mystique & Domination: A Matter of Mutual Reinforcement The Theological Substructure of the Dominant Notion of Science
Chapter 7: Some Terminological Revelations Through European History: The Invalidity of Science as a Theoretical Concept
Chapter 8: Science: A Basket Category And why Science-Technology Differential Matters to Communication
Chapter 9: An Eco-Communicative Theory of Technology
Chapter 10: The Principle of Proximation: Proximate & Distant Technologies
Chapter 11: The Principle of Temporality: Newer, Older, Obsolete, & Antiquated Technologies
Chapter 12: The Principle of Concentration: Concentrative & Disseminative Technologies
Chapter 13: The Principle of Anthropocentrism: Meat Technologies; Technologies of Polity; Communication Technologies
Chapter 14: The Principle of Uncertainty: Uncertain Technologies
Chapter 15: The Unprincipled Case of the Technologies of Development
Chapter 16: Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
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Stoa, Ryan (2018) Craft Weed: Family Farming and the Future of the Marijuana Industry (The MIT Press). (ISBN-10: 0262038862; ISBN-13: 978-0262038867)
This is a review essay on Amartya Sen's book _Development as Freedom_.
Stoa, Ryan (2018) Craft Weed: Family Farming and the Future of the Marijuana Industry (The MIT Press). (ISBN-10: 0262038862; ISBN-13: 978-0262038867)
This is a review essay on Amartya Sen's book _Development as Freedom_.
This is a review of Harban's Mukhia's book _The Mughals of India_.
ये सो मिंट की अंग्रेज़ी पुस्तक <बर्मा फाइल: सवाल गणतंत्र का> (२००४) की एक विस्तृत समीक्षा है जो एशिया टाइम्स ऑनलाइन पर दिसम्बर १८, २००४ में प्रकाशित हुई थी |
Acknowledgments
Preface
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Technology, Ecology, & Communication
Chapter 2: In Apprehending Technology, Bypass the Foucauldian Framework
Chapter 3: Science Defined in Terms of Object Versus Method of Study: The Problematics of the Two Approaches
Chapter 4: Diverse Objects, Diverse Subjects: An Inquest into a State of Pre- Fragmentation Termed Science
Chapter 5:The Argument Concerning the Christian-Religious Inception of Science
Chapter 6: Mystique & Domination: A Matter of Mutual Reinforcement The Theological Substructure of the Dominant Notion of Science
Chapter 7: Some Terminological Revelations Through European History: The Invalidity of Science as a Theoretical Concept
Chapter 8: Science: A Basket Category And why Science-Technology Differential Matters to Communication
Chapter 9: An Eco-Communicative Theory of Technology
Chapter 10: The Principle of Proximation: Proximate & Distant Technologies
Chapter 11: The Principle of Temporality: Newer, Older, Obsolete, & Antiquated Technologies
Chapter 12: The Principle of Concentration: Concentrative & Disseminative Technologies
Chapter 13: The Principle of Anthropocentrism: Meat Technologies; Technologies of Polity; Communication Technologies
Chapter 14: The Principle of Uncertainty: Uncertain Technologies
Chapter 15: The Unprincipled Case of the Technologies of Development
Chapter 16: Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author