This volume launches a new sub-discipline of the human science, "mediology". It includes a new way in which to analyze and think about the media from the city state to the Internet. It is also an examination of the work of Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, C.S. Peirce and Marshall McLuhan.

Steeped in the intellectual ethos of Althusser and Foucault, informed by the historical work of the Annales School, and yet plugged in today's audiovisual culture, this book turns a neologism ("mediology") into a tool-kit with which to re-think the whole business of mediation. Regis Debray is the author of "Teachers, Writers, Celebrities", "Critique of Political Reason" and "Charles de Gaulle: Futurist of the Nation".