ETC: A Review of General Semantics will soon be mailed and is now available for download from the IGS Store in searchable PDF format.

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• "The Terrance Deacon’s Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter. The Teleodynamics of Culture, Language, Organization, Science, Economics and Technology (CLOSET). Part II: Are Culture, Language, Organization, Science, Economics, and Technology (CLOSET) Teleodynamic Phenomena?" by Robert K. Logan
• "Structuring and the Notion 'Time': A General Semantics Conscious Time-Binding Approach" by Milton Dawes
• "The Time Binders in Korzybski’s Manhood of Humanity" by Krishna Daiya
• "On Language Wars" by Michael Moore
• "Danger: Deficiences Ahead" by Gary H. Mayer
• Interview:
  "Media Ecology and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL)" by Peter Zhang, Chin-Chin Tseng, and Natalie Sheen
• From the Vault:
  "Metalanguage" by Gregory Bateson
  "Form, Substance, and Difference" by Gregory Bateson
  "The Relevance of General Semantics" by Alvin Toffler
• Poems:
  "'I am a tear of the sun': Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Autobiography" by Phillip Dow
  "The Face" by Joan Colby
  "Joyrides" by Joan Colby
  "The Sketch Artist" by Joan Colby
  "Vowels" by Joan Colby
  "ISMS" by Joan Colby
• Plus Letter from the Editor, Book Reviews, News and Notes.

Cover Art

The photograph used for the cover of ETC 72:1 is titled Haecceity “此”性 and is part of a textual and
photographic essay Zen Musings as featured in ETC 71:4 by photographer Wei-Shyuan (Stone) Peng.

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