History

Media icons have been with us since early recorded history, and they have been used as rhetorical devices on mass audiences since at least the time of Alexander the Great. There is no war without media icons. There is no peace without them, either. The collusive forces that appear to control their content, from initial conception through to repetitive audience reception and acceptance, control the world. Whether viewed in the felling of architectural structures, momentous film elements, or a nanotechnological pandemic, media icons as iconics are critically posited in history and cyberspace. While specific study of media iconics is a subset of the academic discipline of iconicology, media iconics themselves relegate to the rhizomic realms of cybernetics and new AI.