Menu
Log in
Log in
  • 30 Apr 2024 1:25 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The twentieth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our April 2024 episode features an interview with lawyer, media activist, and artist-designer Paul Guzzardo. The 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. .

    You can access Episode 20 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:


  • 30 Mar 2024 2:31 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The nineteenth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. 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.

    You can access Episode 19 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:


  • 12 Feb 2024 5:19 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The eighteenth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our Febuary 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.

    You can access Episode 18 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:


  • 28 Jan 2024 4:04 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The seventeenth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. 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 conclude with a live performance.

    You can access Episode 17 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:


  • 30 Dec 2023 5:08 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The sixteenth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. 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”. 

    You can access Episode 16 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, and on YouTube, and below:

  • 28 Dec 2023 4:52 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The presentations at the 71st Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Non-Aristotelian Perspectives, Ecological Approaches, and the Anthropocene Symposium held on October 27th-29th, 2023 at The Players, New York City, are now available for viewing via the IGS YouTube channel

    Lera Boroditsky's Korzybski Lecture was not included at the request of the speaker, but IGS members can access the raw footage of the entire weekend via our special members only page.
  • 1 Dec 2023 4:48 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The fifteenth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. 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. 

    You can access Episode 15 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, and on YouTube, and below:


  • 31 Oct 2023 4:42 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The fourteenth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. 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.

    You can access Episode 14 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, and on YouTube, and below:

  • 30 Sep 2023 4:37 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The thirteenth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. 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.

    You can access Episode 13 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, and on YouTube, and below:


  • 5 Sep 2023 1:23 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The twelfth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. This installment 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.

    You can access Episode 12 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, and on YouTube, and below:


Institute of General Semantics
401 Park Avenue South
Ste. 873
New York, NY 10016

Phone: +1 (201) 745-3693
Contact IGS

Quarterly Journal ETC: A Review of General Semantics

ETC contributes to and advances the understanding of language, thought, and behavior. Each issue of ETC provides the latest research and discourse on general semantics.

Enter the IGS Store

The Institute of General Semantics is a qualified 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation established in 1938.

Powered by Wild Apricot Membership Software