Photos from our 2026 Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and Symposium on Language, Listening, Literacy, and Algorithms, held at the Players in New York City, October 2-4, 2026 (photos courtesy of IGS Trustee Laura Trujillo-Liñán and Ricardo Trujillo). Click on the photo below to go to the complete photo album on Flickr.com:

The fiftieth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our October 2026 podcast features Corey Anton, Peggy Cassidy, Susan Drucker, Thom Gencarelli, and Lance Strate discussing the state of the semantic environment. Their conversation addresses topics such as politics and democracy, commerce and education and technology and AI.

You can access Episode 50 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:

The forty-ninth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our September 2026 podcast features features author, filmmaker, and educator Nora Bateson, who is president of the International Bateson Institute, as well as an IGS trustee, and Nora’s editor and warm data associate Leslie Thulin Eubanks. In conversation with IGS President Lance Strate, they discuss the upcoming double book launch event in New York City on October 7, 2026, hosted by the New York Society for General Semantics and the IGS, following the 74th annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and Symposium on October 2-4, 2026, celebrating Nora Bateson’s brand new book entitled Belly, edited by Leslie Thulin Eubanks, along with a new work by Gregory Bateson entitled Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind: The Course.

You can access Episode 49 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:

The forty-eighth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our August 2026 podcast features singer-songwriter, activist, and New York Society for General Semantics board member Michelle Shocked, and transmedia producer, director, writer, and sound designer Sue Zizza, owner of SueMedia Productions and RadioWaves Studios in New York City. In conversation with IGS President Lance Strate, they discuss their recently released podcast series, Bootleg This!, Michelle Shocked's audio memoir. Their discussion also covers the music industry, Google and YouTube, Nikola Tesla and Mark Twain, the Players club, podcasting, radio, the Firesign Theater, the Institute of General Semantics, the New York Society for General Semantics, the Media Ecology Association, the National Communication Association, and the New York State Communication Association. 

You can access Episode 48 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:

The forty-seventh episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our July 2026 podcast features author, financier, and IGS Trustee Christopher Mayer. In conversation with IGS President Lance Strate, they discuss his recently published book, The Unspeakable Level: Korzybski’s Razor and Other Ways of Revealings.

You can access Episode 47 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:

The forty-sixth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our June 2026 podcast features author, scientist, and social commentator David Brin. In an interview conducted by IGS President Lance Strate, he discusses his career as a science fiction writer, including the adaptation of his novel, The Postman, by Kevin Costner. He also discusses his views on science and democracy, technology and society, and current and future developments in AI programming, as well as his recently published book, AIlien Intelligence, and also concludes with a message to the present and future AIs tuning in to this podcast.

You can access Episode 46 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:

The forty-fifth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our May 2026 podcast features German attorney-at-law Dace Luters-Thümmel. She is a member of the German and Latvian Courts and Bar Associations, and a member of the Consultative Committee ALI-ELI Project “Principles of a Data Economy”, and a nominee for the 2020 European Women of Legal Tech Award. In conversation with IGS President Lance Strate, she discusses the value of multilingualism, the importance of listening, the differences between European and Anglo-American legal systems, the transition to democracy and rule of law from Communist and authoritarian governments, and the regulation of media and technology, including AI.

You can access Episode 45 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:

The forty-fourth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our April 2026 podcast features author, educator, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sarah L. Kaufman. As the Washington Post’s chief dance critic, she wrote about the arts, entertainment, and society for 27 years. In conversation with IGS President Lance Strate, she discusses her career as a journalist and writer, dance as a form of expression, the concept of grace, and the art of writing, and her brand new book entitled, Verb Your Enthusiasm: How to Master the Art of the Verb and Transform Your Writing.

You can access Episode 44 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:

The forty-third episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our March 2026 podcast features features Peggy Cassidy, Thom Gencarelli, and Lance Strate discussing media ecology and general semantics. Their conversation follows up on a program sponsored by the New York Society for General Semantics,, and touches on topics such as the influence of general semantics on media ecology, sense perception and the human nervous system, language and symbolic form, orality and literacy, the effects of new technologies, and AI.

You can access Episode 43 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below:

The forty-second episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our Februrary 2026 podcast features features award-winning Canadian documentarian Kevin McMahon, the director of approximately 30 films, including McLuhan’s Wake (2002). In conversation with Lance Strate, he discusses his career as a journalist and filmmaker, the practice of making documentaries, the idea of nonfiction film, and media scholars Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman. 

You can access Episode 42 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below: