Language, Listening, Literacy, and Algorithms

A Symposium Sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics
Co-Sponsored by the
New York Society for General Semantics
Media Ecology Association
International Bateson Institute
Tomkins Institute
404 Festival of Art and Technology
October 2-4, 2026
The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003

We welcome papers and proposals that fit any aspect of the symposium theme or that otherwise relate to the topics of general semantics, linguistics and semiotics, media ecology, communication and culture, science and the empirical method, epistemology and phenomenology, cybernetics and systems theory, technology and society, art and perception, cognition and consciousness, evolution and emergence, health and human potential, etc.

Featuring the 74th Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture
To Be Delivered By
Ted Chiang

Ted Chiang is an American science fiction writer. His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, six Locus awards, and the PEN Malamud Award. His novella “Story of Your Life” was the basis of the film Arrival (2016). His most recent short story collection, Exhalation (Knopf, 2019), was listed as one of the Top Ten Books of 2019 by the New York Times, and included in President Barack Obama’s 2019 reading list. In 2023, he was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI.

Send papers, proposals, & inquiries by August 15th to

Lance Strate via President at GeneralSemantics.org