Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-173) and index.

Preface -- Pedagogical Orientations. The Practice of Reading Good Books: A Plea to Teachers and Students -- Learning about Education Metaphors: Study as a Way of Life -- Explorations in General Semantics. Playing With Bateson: Denotation, Logical Types, and Analog and Digital Communication -- A Levels Orientation to Abstraction, Logical Typing, and Language More Generally -- Korzybski and Bateson: Paradoxes in 'Consciousness of Abstracting' -- Is There a Territory Without Maps? -- The Thing Is Not Itself: Artefactual Metonymy and the World of Antiques -- Media Ecological Studies. History, Orientations, and Future Directions of Media Ecology -- Early Western Writing, Sensory Modalities, and Modern Alphabetic Literacy: On the Origins of Representational Theorizing -- Clocks, Synchronization, and the Fate of Leisure: A Brief Media Ecological History of Digital Technologies -- Resources and Meditations. Words to Live By: Scholarly Quotations as Proverbial Theories -- Aphorisms, Insights, and Other Comic Resources for Modern Intellectuals.