Offers original examinations of societies as complex codifications of energy, and of human beings as integrated aspects of larger and more complex codifications of energy.
Even though I am not a student of Peirce, I have loved this book and read it several times. The treatment of the thermodynamics of energetic codification was the most valuable aspect to me, as I am fascinated by the physics of information. I also enjoyed the extensive classical bibliography, and often go through it instead of the work itself. She also has a few essays online, and I would like to read 'the textual society'.