Episode 20 Featuring An Interview With Paul Guzzardo InstituteofGS 2024-04-26 | Our April 2024 episode features an interview with lawyer, media activist, and artist-designer Paul Guzzardo. Their conversation ranges across topics such as digital arts and deep fakes, the music of Ustad Imrat Khan, Henry Ford and the United Steel Workers labor union, Marshall McLuhan and Walter Ong, Patrick Geddes and Aldous Huxley, Josephine Baker, Walter Winchell, Giovanni Piranesi, and of course general semantics, and takes us on a trip from Guzzardo’s hometown of St. Louis to his current residence in Buenos Aries, Argentina, with stops along the way in places such as New York City, Edinburgh and Dundee in Scotland, and Calcutta, India.
Episode 19 Featuring a Discussion With Laura Trujillo-Liñán, Gustavo Navarro, Thom Gencarelli,... InstituteofGS 2024-03-29 | Our March 2024 episode features a discussion held in the media lab at Panamericana University in Mexico City with Panamericana's Media Lab Director Gustavo Navarro, IGS Trustee and Panamericana Philosophy Professor Laura Trujillo-Liñán, and visiting IGS Trustees Thom Gencarelli and Lance Strate. Their conversation covers media ecology, new media, education, general semantics, and more.
Episode 18 Featuring an Interview With Michelle Shocked Part 2 InstituteofGS 2024-02-11 | Our February 2024 episode features the second part of an interview with singer-songwriter and activist Michelle Shocked. In conversation with IGS trustees Lance Strate and Thom Gencarelli, they discuss Michelle's career and music, and issues regarding copyright, media and technology, artists' rights, and human dignity (and includes a bit of salty language). The episode concludes with a live performance and a prerecorded song. If you haven't heard episode 17, you may want to listen to that one first.
Episode 17 Featuring an Interview With Michelle Shocked InstituteofGS 2024-01-28 | Our January 2024 episode features an interview with singer-songwriter and activist Michelle Shocked. In conversation with IGS trustees Lance Strate and Thom Gencarelli, they discuss Michelle's background and music, and issues regarding copyright, media and technology, artists' rights, and human dignity, and concludes with a live performance.
Episode 16 Featuring an Interview With Steve Stockdale InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Our December 2023 episode features an interview with former IGS Executive Director and Trustee Steve Stockdale. In conversation with IGS President Lance Strate, Stockdale discusses his background and connection to general semantics, his experiences setting up a MOOC and teaching a course on general semantics online, and his initiative known as “calling out the symbol rulers”.
“The Shield of Perseus” Lance Strate InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Julian Costa “Just Saying Actually, Youre Not! Ornaments of Crazy Talk” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Nick Demopoulos “A Personal Approach to Designing an Interactive Digital Interface” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
“Echoes: Creating a Narrative Audio & Transmedia Storyworld” Heidi C Bordogna & Holly Payne Strange InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Robert Albrecht “Four Ideas About Media, Culture and Music” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
“Time Binding Walls: When Walls Can Talk” Susan Drucker & Gary Gumpert InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Toby Cohen “Digital Out Of Home Technology and the Environmental Escapades” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Alexis Romero Walker “Critical Media Literacy as DEI Tools for Media and Communication Today” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Thom Gencarelli “2 Party Politics & a 2 Valued Orientation Meet the 21st Century Media Environment InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Stefanie Wasserman Impulse: Art, Neuro Science, and AI InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Representations of Refugee Crises in Media and Artistic Environments Igor Korolyov & Olena Marina InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Robert T Ackland Words Are Like Poker Chips: Translating Condillac InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Joshua Clements “An Ounce of Prevention: General Semantics and Conspiracy Theories” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Lev Manovich “Artificial Aesthetics: Understanding Images in the Generative AI Era” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Amanda Sevilla “Exploring the AI Panopticon” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Diana Kamin “Rhetoric of the Image Collection” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Omar Badessi “Decoding Hispano Moroccan Conflicts: A General Semantics Analysis” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Primoz Novak “Reality is Out” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Marcy Axelrod “Semantics and the Truth About Showing Up” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Christopher W Mayer “Dear Fellow Time Binder: Exploring Connections with General Semantics” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Corey Anton Time Binding, Wealth, and Superabundance InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
David Clark “The Medium and the Messengers” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Katherine G Fry “Media Ecology Meets Media Literacy InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Jermaine Martinez “Partisan Dogmatism: Saliency and Effort in ‘Assuming the Minimum’” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Valerie Peterson “Semantic Reactions: Liberal and Conservative” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Stephen Nachmanovich “The Message ‘This is Play’” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Gina Valenti “Hominis Circus” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Margaret Cassidy “What is ‘Student Success’ Anyway? Why Every Dean’s Office Needs General Semantics” InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Maria Polski “Towards Awareness of Communication Technology Biases InstituteofGS 2023-12-27 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Martin H Levinson “When the Map is Not the Territory: General Semantics and Satire” InstituteofGS 2023-12-26 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
2023 IGS Awards & Prizes Presentation SD 480p InstituteofGS 2023-12-26 | Presentations at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York CityLance StrateJacqueline RudigThom GencarelliMichael PlughStephen NachmanovichTiffany Petty GilliamOmar Badessi
Lance Strate Welcoming Remarks InstituteofGS 2023-12-26 | Welcoming Remarks at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Gina Valenti Musical Performance InstituteofGS 2023-12-26 | Performance at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Robert Priest “Poems, Songs and Maxims of One Mans Anthropocene” InstituteofGS 2023-12-26 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Tiffany Petty Gilliam “Warhols Wake: The Difference Between a Small Big Life and a Big Small Life” InstituteofGS 2023-12-26 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Michael Plugh “Why Don’t We Teach ‘The Senses’?” SD 480p InstituteofGS 2023-12-26 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Tim Lyons “The World Problematique, Proliferating Projections, Human Palavering, and Plummeting Off InstituteofGS 2023-12-26 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Laura Trujillo Liñán “The Era of Dataism, Confusion and Loss of Communication” InstituteofGS 2023-12-26 | Presentation at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene SymposiumOctober 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City
Episode 15 Featuring an Interview With Marcy Axelrod InstituteofGS 2023-11-28 | Our November 2023 episode features an interview with author, public speaker, and strategy management consultant Marcy Axelrod. The interview, conducted by IGS President Lance Strate, focuses on her new book, entitled How We Choose to Show Up, her work as a business consultant, and the importance of speech, relationships, and personal presence.
Episode 14 Featuring An Interview With Nora Bateson InstituteofGS 2023-10-31 | Our October 2023 episode features an interview with Nora Bateson, who is an IGS Trustee and President of the International Bateson Institute. The interview, conducted by IGS President Lance Strate, focuses on her new book, entitled Combining, a volume that includes essays, poems, and artwork. Their conversation touches on topics such as systems theory, the ecology of communication, learning and interdependence, relationships and contexts, and poetry and forms of expression.
Episode 13 Featuring a Roundtable Discussion With Eva Berger, Susan Drucker, Thom Gencarelli,... InstituteofGS 2023-10-04 | Celebrating the one year anniversary of the launch of our podcast, our September 2023 episode features a roundtable discussion with IGS trustees Eva Berger, Susan Drucker, Thom Gencarelli, Michael Plugh, and Lance Strate, as they take up the one of the most basic questions for the discipline of general semantics: What is going on? Their discussion touches on problems such as racism and retribalization, information overload and political polarization, chaos and complexity, AI and regulation, and how to make things better.
Episode 12 Featuring An Interview With Paul Soukup InstituteofGS 2023-08-24 | The twelfth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, features an interview with Paul Soukup, SJ, a professor of communication at Santa Clara University, and the author of seven books, including Communication and Theology; Christian Communication; Media, Culture and Catholicism; Mass Media and the Moral Imagination; Fidelity and Translation: Communicating the Bible in New Media; Out of Eden; and most recently, A Media Ecology of Theology. The interview is conducted by IGS president Lance Strate, and their discussion ranges across topics such as education, language, environmentalism, religion, and media.
Ecologies of Mind, Media, & Meaning 2 Session 6 InstituteofGS 2023-08-03 | The Institute of General Semanticsgeneralsemantics.orgEcologies of Mind, Media, & Meaning 2An Online SymposiumApril 29th, 2023As this is a Zoom recording, quality and volume will vary depending on the individual participant's equipment and set up.Session VI Semantic EnvironmentsIntroduction by Lance Strate, IGS PresidentChair: Laura Trujillo Liñan, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico“The Drying and Dying of the Great Salt Lake and the Colorado River: Mediating Water Relations in Three Acts” Heather Crandall, Gonzaga University, US“Info/Eco andThe Nature of Information: Towards an EcologicalUnderstanding of the Information Environment” Richard Lowenberg, 1st-Mile Institute, US“On An Ecology of Witnessing: Humans, Earth, Universes and Media ” Julianne Newton, University of Oregon, US“The And” Lance Strate, Fordham University, US
Ecologies of Mind, Media, & Meaning 2 Session 5 InstituteofGS 2023-08-03 | The Institute of General Semanticsgeneralsemantics.orgEcologies of Mind, Media, & Meaning 2An Online SymposiumApril 29th, 2023As this is a Zoom recording, quality and volume will vary depending on the individual participant's equipment and set up.Session V Language, Thought, and RealityIntroduction by Lance Strate, IGS PresidentChair: Thom Gencarelli, Manhattan College, US“Mediating Information and Meaning: An Exploration of Hearing, Listening, and the Mind” Ryan McCullough, West Liberty University, US“On the Most Proper Means for Acquiring Knowledge” and Other Translations of Condillac’s 18th Century Words” Robert T. Ackland, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, US“The Limits of ChatGPT from a General Semantics Perspective” Laura Trujillo Liñan, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico“On Epistemology” Milton Dawes, Independent Scholar, Canada
Ecologies of Mind, Media, & Meaning 2 Session 4 InstituteofGS 2023-08-03 | The Institute of General Semanticsgeneralsemantics.orgEcologies of Mind, Media, & Meaning 2An Online SymposiumApril 29th, 2023As this is a Zoom recording, quality and volume will vary depending on the individual participant's equipment and set up.Session IV Feeling and FormIntroduction by Lance Strate, IGS PresidentChair: Michael Plugh, Manhattan College, US“What Boobs Have to Say” Zíngara Lofrano, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil“When the Map is Not the Territory: General Semantics and Satire” Martin H. Levinson, Institute of General Semantics, US“These Bots are Made for Walkin’” Gina Valenti, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina“Book Clubs, Technology, and Education: Paulo Freire and Marshall McLuhan for a (Media) Literacy Approach in Schools” Vanessa Martins, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
