A Communication Universe

A Communication Universe offers a new approach to theorizing the nature of communication which is conceptualized as transformations of a space-time continuum of meaning. Igor E. Klyukanov also shows how each transformation can be best discussed in terms of certain theories of communication. Thus, the book is dedicated to both ontological and epistemological issues of communication.

A Communication Universe: Manifestations of Meaning, Stagings of Significance presents a new theoretical understanding of communication. Igor E. Klyukanov conceptualizes the process of communication in terms of space and time, i.e., as a continuous process of meaningful spatiotemporal transformation. He goes on to examine four fundamental transformations and the four theoretical perspectives on the nature of communication. From the first perspective communication appears to be 'pure space,' then time comes into play more and more actively, and from the fourth perspective communication appears to be 'pure time.' Following the fourth transformation communication is seen as returning back to the first stage where it again appears as 'pure space;' however, now its reality contains all meanings created in the process of the previous transformations. Based on these four transformations, the process of communication is understood as a universe, meaning 'whole,' 'entire,' 'turned into one.'

Part 1 Part One: The Future Behind Us: Perspectives on Communication
Part 2 Chapter 1. Toward the Nature of Communication: Unforgetting
Chapter 3 Communication Unfolding
Chapter 4 The Identity (Crisis) of Communication Study
Chapter 5 An Impressive Disarray
Part 6 Chapter 2. Communication Theorizing: Being-(on)-the-Way
Chapter 7 The (De)Fault of Ontological Assumptions
Chapter 8 A Pathway to/of Communication
Chapter 9 Communication as a Moving Experience
Chapter 10 All a Matter of Perspective
Part 11 Part Two: The Staging(s) of Communication
Part 12 Chapter 3. Up in the Air: Communication as Invocation
Chapter 13 The Call of Communication
Chapter 14 The Medium is Not the Message
Chapter 15 The Noise of Time
Part 16 Chapter 4. Down the Stream: Communication as Conversation
Chapter 17 Communication, Actually
Chapter 18 The Presentation of the Other
Chapter 19 Communication in Situ
Chapter 20 That Which Befalls One
Chapter 21 Through the Looking-glass, Darkly
Part 22 Chapter 5. Of this Earth: Communication as Construction
Chapter 23 Terra Firma
Chapter 24 Toward the Common Denominator
Chapter 25 Playing the Devil's Advocate
Chapter 26 Communication as Poetic Justice
Part 27 Chapter 6. Through the Fire: Communication as Resignation
Chapter 28 The (Un)Bearable Lightness of Being
Chapter 29 The Gift that Keeps on Giving
Chapter 30 The Proteism of Communication
Chapter 31 The Author is Dead - Long Live the Author!
Chapter 32 To Be and Not to Be
Chapter 33 The Present of the World
Part 34 Part Three: The Past Before Us: Communication Being
Part 35 Chapter 7. Airy Nothing: Communication as Transformation
Chapter 36 Return: Back to the Things Themselves
Chapter 37 The Breath of Pleroma
Chapter 38 Communion with Eternity
Chapter 39 Democracy of Transspecies
Chapter 40 Love Equals Communication
Chapter 41 Becoming Undead
Part 42 Chapter 8. Communication: Infinite Return
Chapter 43 Figuring It All Out
Chapter 44 The Dialectics of (the Study of) Communication
Chapter 45 Communication Being Successful
Chapter 46 For the Time and Space Being