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Semantic Reactions

Semantic Reactions

Written by: Institute of General Semantics
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Semantic Reactions is the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics2022 Philosophy Social Sciences
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  • Episode 40 Featuring Susan Drucker and Erik Garrett
    Dec 18 2025

    Our December 2025 episode features Susan Drucker, who is an IGS Trustee, Professor of Journalism at Hofstra University, and a founder of the Urban Communication Foundation, and Erik Garrett, a professor of communication and rhetoric at Duquesne University and a member of the Urban Communication Foundation's Board of Directors. In conversation with IGS President Lance Strate, they discuss areas of mutual interest between the Urban Communication Foundation and the Institute of General Semantics, and talk about topics such as language and the problems of definition, practical applications, policy and governance, city planning, architecture, postmodernism, maps and territories, the effects of technology, and the importance of human scale and organic community.

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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • Episode 39 featuring Corey Anton, Peggy Cassidy, Susan Drucker, Thom Gencarelli, and Lance Strate
    Nov 25 2025

    Our November 2025 episode features a recording of an IGS sponsored session that took place at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association. The program entitled Perspectives on Politics and the Future of Democracy that included IGS trustees Corey Anton, Peggy Cassidy, Susan Drucker, Thom Gencarelli, and Lance Strate. Their discussion touched on a variety of topics, including Alfred Korzybski's emphasis on science and progress, public discourse in the United States today, the role of news media in political campaigns, freedom of speech and the problem of hate speech, the rise of authoritarianism, and the relationship between technology and politics

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Episode 38 Featuring Nora Bateson
    Oct 28 2025

    Our October 2025 episode features author, filmmaker, and IGS trustee Nora Bateson, who is also president of the International Bateson Institute and the creator of the Warm Data Labs initiative. Her conversation with IGS president Lance Strate centers on the current sense that we are experiencing multiple crises, or what has been referred to as a polycrisis or metacrisis. They also touch on topics such as science communication, therapy, the family, language, AI, and storytelling, and draw upon media ecology, warm data, and general semantics.

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    1 hr and 25 mins
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