Episode 3 Featuring Interviews with Susan Jasko and Stephanie Bennett
Release Date: 11/22/2022
Episode 39 featuring Corey Anton, Peggy Cassidy, Susan Drucker, Thom Gencarelli, and Lance Strate
Semantic Reactions
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...
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Episode 38 Featuring Nora Bateson
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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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Episode 37 Featuring Christina Knopf
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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, its history, and the superhero genre, as well as the depiction of superheroes in movies and television, including this past summer’s films featuring Superman, and the Fantastic Four.
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Episode 36 Featuring Keith Clark and Ted Delicath
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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, and journalism.
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Episode 35 Featuring Ryan Zickgraf
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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 touches on politics and democracy, gamergate, the effects of screens and social media on public discourse, the additional impact of AI, the decline of rationality and time-binding, as well as the reaction against technology on the part of Gen Z.
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Episode 34 Featuring Martin Levinson
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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, and the process of writing, as well as topics such as PTSD, antisemitism, politics, and satire.
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Episode 33 Featuring Corey Anton, Peggy Cassidy, Susan Drucker, Thom Gencarelli, & Lance Strate
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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 Treasurer Thom Gencarelli of Manhattan University, and IGS Trustees Peggy Cassidy of Adelphi University and Susan Drucker of Hofstra University. Their freewheeling roundtable touches on a variety of topics, including the difficulties that students are facing, the challenges brought on by technological...
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Semantic Reactions 32 Featuring Christopher Mayer
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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 as the trade deficit, tariffs, inflation, and even money itself.
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Episode 31 Featuring Marleen Barr
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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
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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 Anton Wilson and how he was greatly influenced by Alfred Korzybski and general semantics, as well as Gabriel Kennedy’s background and career.
info_outlineThe 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 Communication Association in New Orleans, November 17th to 20th, 2022. The conversations range across topics such as science communication, the weather, policing, speech, civility, religion, language, and of course general semantics.