ETC.: A Review of General Semantics articles from June 1995

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics archives from June 1995

Acquaintance, abstracting, non-allness.
June 22, 1995... Getting Acquainted with the Territory What an individual experiences depends upon which specialized structures in his nervous system are stimulated. Note the paper on which this is written. In what ways can an observer have relationships with...

Baseball 2250. (imaginary planet)
June 22, 1995... [Note.sup.1995]: Mr. Johnston alleges that the following text appeared on his internet node on planet [Earth.sup.April 2, 1995] ostensibly transmitted across time from the year 2250. Readers may judge for themselves its historical validity. On...

Contemporary urban music: controversial messages in hip-hop and rap lyrics.
June 22, 1995... Introduction Anyone who is unfamiliar with recent contemporary urban music is likely to be surprised at its unusual rhythms and perhaps even shocked at its uninhibited lyrics. Unless one is involved with urban teenagers or ghetto culture or...

Roland Barthes: against language.
June 22, 1995... Roland Barthes is "against" language in two senses of that word. His work struggles constantly "against" those levels of language - communication, symbolism - which create discourse within the subject. Internalized discourse creates alienations...

One more time. (mathsemantics)
June 22, 1995... I don't know how many times Marion Winik, a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," has been married nor how many volumes of poetry she's published. Therefore, her stating early in her review of Erica Jong's Fears of...

The projection metaphor in psychology.
June 22, 1995... I was looking through my books recently when I came across a remarkable passage in a volume of Carl Jung, which, about 25 years ago, I had taken the trouble to copy. ...we still go on naively projecting our own psychology into our fellow human...

Find the dots, connect the dots, see the picture. (journalism)
June 22, 1995... "After 350 Years, Vatican Says Galileo Was Right: It Moves." New York Times The reporting of events in the mass media often contributes to the belief that a knowledgeable individual has described those events accurately and fully. If we...

A multi-purpose experiential activity or let's party (again). (teaching semantics)
June 22, 1995... As a wet-behind-the-ears general semantics teacher in 1986 at a Milwaukee women's college, I'd eagerly (sometimes frantically) search for classroom exercises that would engage my students, clarify my lectures, and elicit meaningful discussion. I...

A general semantics glossary. (part 11)
June 22, 1995... extensional devices applied, part two. In the eighth installment of our Glossary I wrote that I would discuss applications "to such engaging subjects as the Holocaust and feminism." (1) I addressed the Holocaust (i.e., ways of talking about the...

Naming virtual space in computer-mediated conversation.
June 22, 1995... New technologies expand our ability to communicate by providing new channels for communication, but at the same time they create contexts of interaction far removed from the paradigm of face-to-face interaction. Communication media separate the...

Corporate lingo: a new meaning.
June 22, 1995... Corporate America's love affair with "program du jour" has spawned an outbreak of language abuse of the most heinous nature. Management behaviors could be likened to that of an adult who tempts a child with a treat, then never allows the child...

Extending awareness for health and creative living: an interview with Dr. Risa Kaparo.(Interview)
June 22, 1995... We all experience moments when we feel vitally alive. We see a beautiful landscape just outside our home as if for the first time; colors suddenly become vivid. During a pressured work day, we find a way to solve a problem with a surprising burst...

Language and Myth.
June 22, 1995... Herbert Spencer tried to prove the thesis that the mythico-religious veneration of natural phenomena "has its ultimate origin in nothing more than a misinterpretation of the names which men have applied to these objects" (p. 3). For Max...

Drive Yourself Sane!: Using the Uncommon Sense of General-Semantics.
June 22, 1995... There is a joy in life if we know how to live, and science as always helps us. That's one of the few sentences I jotted down not long ago while making my way through Alfred Korzybski's Collected Writings (Institute of General Semantics, 1990,...

Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas.
June 22, 1995... After three years of intensive research and hundreds of interviews, Anita Hill included, Mayer and Abramson present a seamless narrative of the Clarence Thomas' ten-year campaign to achieve his ambition of becoming a justice on the United States...