PDF Version: General Semantics Bulletin No. 74 & 75 (2007-2008)

General Semantics Bulletin

No. 74 & 75 (2007-2008)

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"Editor’s Note" by Lance Strate

"President’s Letter" by Martin Levinson

"Introductory Remarks Delivered at the 56th Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture" by Lance Strate

"Playing the Future: Towards a Creative Society (Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture 2008)" by Douglas Rushkoff

"The Alphabet Versus the Goddess (Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture 2007)" by Leonard Schlain

"What Did Alfred Want? A Biographer’s Notes on Korzybski’s Life and Work" by Bruce Kodish

"Null-A and SF" by John C. Wright

"Media Ecology as General Semantics Writ Large" by Terence P. Moran

"The Ten Commandments and the Semantic Environment: Understanding the Decalogue through General Semantics and Media Ecology" by Lance Strate

"The Closely Encountering 'The Huxtable Effect' Or, President Obama and the Rescued Reality Based Community Were Brought to You by the Television Roots of Black Science Fiction" by Marleen S. Barr

"Mediation and Fusion: The Case of Barack Obama" by Thomas de Zengotita

"Beyond iCelebrities: Social Networks and Social Activism on the Internet" by Kathleen Sweeney

"Have We Reached 'Peak Attention'?" by David Berreby

"What Is a Sphere? Metapatterns and Scale-transcending Functional Principles" by Tyler Volk

"Ivan Petrovich Pavlov’s Reflection on Mind and Consciousness" by Frank E. X. Dance

"The Epistemoscope [From Time-Binding to Space-Minding]" by Devkumar Trivedi

"Abstractions from Lonergan’s Insight a Study of Human Understanding on Transcendence" by Milton Dawes

"Much Ado About Nothing" by Milton Dawes

"General Semantics Guides toward Better Futures" by Milton Dawes

"Con II: The Future of Consciousness" by Allen Flagg

"Sarkozy and France" by Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer

"General Semantics in India" by Prafulla C. Kar

"In Praise of Delayed Reactions: Israel and the Culture of Talkbacks" by Eva Berger

"Sanity and ‘Insanity’ is Only a Problem of Adjustment to ‘Fact’ and ‘Reality’" by Eric Goodman

"Creating a Civil Culture: The Need to Resist Trash Talk in Contemporary Media" by Janet Sternberg

"Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk: Revisiting Postman and the Relational Dynamics of Communicating through Personal Mobile Media" by Stephanie Bennett

"Things Come in Fours: A Comparison of Marshall McLuhan’s Tetrad and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Canonical Formula" by Robert K. Blechman

"Empowerment of Women in Africa: The Role of Media Technology (MT)" by Bosco Ebere Amakwe

"Media Futures: Communications and Corrections" by Jessica Crowell

"Deleting 'I,' Updating 'We'" by Philip Ardery

"A Better Tomorrow for General Semantics" by Ben Hauck

"Teaching General Semantics: K-12" by Frank Gastner

"Teaching General Semantics: Bringing General Semantics into the 21st Century" by Renee Cherow-O’Leary

"The Best of Me" by Lance Strate

"of these lines that seem to bind" by Dale Winslow

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