Semantic Reactions

About Semantic Reactions

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.

Publisher

Institute of General Semantics

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Aug 2022

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

49 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   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 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.

2. 

   28 Aug 2026

   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 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 Communiction Association.

3. 

   29 Jul 2026

   Semantic Reactions 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.

Who has been a guest on Semantic Reactions

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Martin H Levinson
• Corey Anton
• Peggy Cassidy
• Susan Drucker
• Thom Gencarelli

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.2 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

46

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

67

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Books guests

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