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Semantic Reactions
by Institute of General Semantics
Semantic Reactions is the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics. We offer conversation and discussion, and readings and performances, on topic relevant to the discipline of general semantics, such as language and symbols, consciousness and culture, systems and ecology, media and technology, science and art, etc.
Episodes
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Episode 49 Featuring Nora Bateson and Leslie Thulin Eubanks
Our Serptember 2026 episode 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...
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Episode 48 Featuring Michelle Shocked and Sue Zizza
Our August 2026 episode 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...
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Episode 47 Featuring Christopher Mayer
Our July 2026 episode 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 Revealing.
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Episode 46 Featuring David Brin
Our June 2026 episode 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...
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Episode 45 Featuring Dace Luters-Thümmel
Our May 2026 episode features German attorney-at-law Dace Luters-Thümmel, a member of the German and Latvian Courts and Bar Associations, 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...
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Episode 44 Featuring Sarah L. Kaufman
Our April 2026 episode 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...
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Episode 43 featuring Peggy Cassidy, Thom Gencarelli, & Lance Strate on Media Ecology
Our March 2026 episode 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...
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Episode 42 Featuring Kevin McMahon
Our February 2026 episode 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…
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Episode 41 Featuring Corey Anton, Susan Drucker, Thom Gencarelli, and Lance Strate
Our January 2026 episodes features IGS trustees Corey Anton, Susan Drucker, Thom Gencarelli, and Lance Strate discussing politics in the United States in light of recent events in Minneapolis. Their conversation deals with the concerns brought on by the current media and semantic environment, the...
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Episode 40 Featuring Susan Drucker and Erik Garrett
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...
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Episode 39 featuring Corey Anton, Peggy Cassidy, Susan Drucker, Thom Gencarelli, and Lance Strate
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…
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Episode 38 Featuring Nora Bateson
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...
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Episode 37 Featuring Christina Knopf
Our September 2025 episode features Cristina Knopf, a professor of Communication and Media Studies at the State University of New York at Cortland, in conversation with IGS president Lance Strate. Their discussion focuses on her research in comics studies and reflections on the comic book medium,...
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Episode 36 Featuring Keith Clark and Ted Delicath
Our August 2025 episode features coaches Keith Clark and Ted Delicath, in conversation with IGS president Lance Strate, discussing the CORO Fellows Program in Public Affairs and its relation to general semantics, as well as related topics such as leadership, governance, listening, cybernetics…
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Episode 35 Featuring Ryan Zickgraf
Our July 2025 installment features writer and journalist Ryan Zickgraf, the author of an op-ed on the continuing relevance of Neil Postman's best known book, Amusing Ourselves to Death that was recently published by the Washington Post. IGS president Lance Strate conducts the interview, which...
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Episode 34 Featuring Martin Levinson
Our June 2025 installment features IGS trustee and past president Martin H. Levinson talking about the recent publication of his latest book, Sensible Thinking 3: The Adventure Continues. In conversation with IGS president Lance Strate, Marty talks about general semantics, learning and education,...
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Episode 33 Featuring Corey Anton, Peggy Cassidy, Susan Drucker, Thom Gencarelli, & Lance Strate
Our May 2025 installment features five of our IGS Trustees on the state of higher education in the United States today. The conversation is led by IGS President Lance Strate who teaches at Fordham University, and includes IGS Vice-President Corey Anton of Grand Valley State University, IGS...
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Semantic Reactions 32 Featuring Christopher Mayer
Our April 2025 installment features the return of author, financier, and IGS Trustee Christopher Mayer to discuss the current economic situation in the United States with IGS President Lance Strate. Their dialogue emphasizes how general semantics can help us to understand financial concepts such…
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Episode 31 Featuring Marleen Barr
Our March 2025 installment features the return of author, scholar, and critic Marleen Barr to discuss her recently published anthology entitled, Jewish Women Science Fiction Writers Create Future Females, with IGS President Lance Strate.
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Episode 30 Featuring Gabriel Kennedy aka Prop Anon
Our February 2025 podcast features IGS President Lance Strate interviewing writer, musician, artist, and author of the recently published book, Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought of Robert Anton Wilson, Gabriel Kennedy, aka Prop Anon. Their discussion deals with the life and work of Robert…
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Episode 29 featuring Brianna Wu
Our January 2025 podcast features IGS President Lance Strate interviewing computer programmer and activist Brianna Wu. Their conversation covers Gamergate, feminism, transexual issues, and politics and activism.
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Episode 28 Featuring Jeff Mordkowitz
Our December 2024 podcast features IGS President Lance Strate interviewing computer scientist and IGS Past President Jeff Mordkowitz. Their conversation covers the history of general semantics and the Institute, approaches to teaching general semantics, the importance of the non-verbal or silent...
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Episode 27 Featuring Lance Strate
Our November 2024 episode departs from our usual format as IGS President Lance Strate shares the Balvant Parekh Memorial Lecture that he recently delivered in India for the Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and other Human Sciences. The lecture, entitled "The Message, the Meaning, and…
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Episode 26 Featuring Eva Berger, Corey Anton, Lance Strate, and AI
Our October 2024 podcast features IGS Trustees Eva Berger, Corey Anton, and Lance Strate taking part a controversial discussion on some of the most recent developments in artificial intelligence and language models and their implications for the future, as well as their connections to general...
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Episode 25 Featuring Nadine Strossen
Our September 2024 episode features an interview with author, New York Law School professor, and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, Nadine Strossen, conducted by IGS trustees Lance Strate and Susan Drucker. Their conversation centers on legal issues such as free speech in the...
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Episode 24 Featuring Corey Anton, Thom Gencarelli, and Lance Strate
Our August 2024 episode features Corey Anton and Thom Gencarelli discussing general semantics and politics, based on the recent special issues of the IGS's quarterly journal, ETC: A Review of General Semantics. In conversation with Lance Strate, they talk about Corey Anton's role as guest editor...
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Episode 23 Featuring Lance Strate, Mary Lahman, Nora Bateson, Dom Heffer, Peggy Cassidy, and Others
Our July 2024 episode departs from our usual format, and instead features a series of short take interviews conducted in conjunction with the IGS's summer seminar entitled, Navigating the Now: A Guide to Recognizing What is Going On, which was held at the October Gallery in London, England, on…
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Episode 22 Featuring a Conversation With Renée Peterson
Our June 2024 episode was recorded at a local radio station in the city of Gold Coast in Australia, and features Australian media personality and researcher, Renée Peterson. Renée has spent over two decades as a media industry professional in Australia and the US, as a radio and television...
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Episode 21 Featuring An Interview With Peggy Cassidy
Our May 2024 episode features an interview with Dr. Margaret Cassidy, the newly elected president of the New York Society for General Semantics, and the author of Bookends: The Changing Media Environment of American Classrooms; and of Children, Media, and American History: Printed Poison,...
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Episode 20 Featuring An Interview With Paul Guzzardo
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...
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Episode 19 Featuring a Discussion With Laura Trujillo-Liñán, Gustavo Navarro, Thom Gencarelli, and Lance Strate
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....
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Episode 18 Featuring an Interview With Michelle Shocked Part 2
Our February 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'...
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Episode 17 Featuring an Interview With Michelle Shocked
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...
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Episode 16 Featuring an Interview With Steve Stockdale
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…
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Episode 15 Featuring an Interview With Marcy Axelrod
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…
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Episode 14 Featuring An Interview With Nora Bateson
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.…
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Episode 13 Featuring a Roundtable Discussion With Eva Berger, Susan Drucker, Thom Gencarelli, Michael Plugh, and Lance Strate
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...
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Episode 12 Featuring An Interview With Paul Soukup
The twelfth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, 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;...
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Episode 11 Featuring An Interview With Marleen Barr
The eleventh episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, features an interview with novelist, literary scholar, and science fiction critic Marleen Barr. Dr. Barr is the author of two novels, Oy Pioneer! and Oy Feminist Planets, and a number of works…
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Episode 10 Featuring an Interview with Mary P.. Lahman
The tenth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, features an interview with writer, educator and general semantics expert Mary P. Lahman. Dr. Lahman is Professor Emerita of Communication Studies at Manchester University in Indiana, and the…
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Episode 9 Featuring an Interview with Martin H. Levinson
The ninth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, features an interview with author and Past President of the Institute of General Semantics Martin Levinson. Their conversation covers Levinson's background in general semantics, his career in...
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Episode 8 Featuring an Interview with Gary Gumpert
The eighth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, features an interview with Gary Gumpert, Professor Emeritus of Communicastion at Queens College of the City University of New York and President of the Urban Communication Foundation, conducted…
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Episode 7 Featuring an Interview with Renee Hobbs
The seventh episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, features an interview with media literacy maven and communication studies scholar Renee Hobbs, conducted by Lance Strate and Thom Gencarelli. The conversation ranges across topics such as...
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Episode 6 Featuring an Interview with Stephen Roxborough
The sixth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, features an interview with poet, author, and recordiong artist Stephen Roxborough. The conversation focuses on the recent release of Roxborough's Poetic Dystopia, an album available on CD and...
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Episode 5 Featuring An Interview With Paul Levinson
The fifth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, features an interview with author and media scholar Paul Levinson conducted by Lance Strate. The conversation ranges across topics that include science fiction, science, language and media,...
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Episode 4 Featuring Corey Anton, Nora Bateson, Eva Berger, Thom Gencarelli, & Lance Strate
The fourth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, features a freewheeling discussion with IGS trustees Corey Anton, Nora Bateson, Eva Berger, Corey Anton, and Lance Strate, on media and technology in general, and especially computers, artificial...
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Episode 3 Featuring Interviews with Susan Jasko and Stephanie Bennett
The third episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, features interviews of Susan Jasko of the University of Alabama, and Stephanie Bennett of Palm Beach Atlantic University, conducted by Lance Strate during the annual meeting of the National...
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Episode 2 Featuring an Interview with Christopher Mayer and Reading by Adeena Karasick
The second episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, features Christopher Mayer, author of How Do You Know: A Guide to Clear Thinking About Wall Street, Investing, and Life, and most recently, Dear Fellow Time-Binder: Letters on General Semantics,...
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Episode 1 Featuring an Interview with Nora Bateson
The first episdoe of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, features Nora Bateson, author, filmmaker, educator, and president of the International Bateson Institute, interviewed by Lance Strate and Michael Plugh. The episode begins with a reading from the...
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Semantic Reactions is the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics. We offer conversation and discussion, and readings and performances, on topic relevant to the discipline of general semantics, such as language and symbols, consciousness and culture, systems and ecology, media and technology, science and art, etc.
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