ETC.: A Review of General Semantics articles from September 2002

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics archives from September 2002

GS/SF.(general semantics, science fiction)
September 22, 2002... THE TANGLED RELATION of general semantics to science fiction began within seven years of the publication of Science and Sanity. John W. Campbell, Jr., the influential editor of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, who regarded general semantics...

To be or naught to be +.
September 22, 2002... "Existence or nullity. The question vexes me." -- HAMLET THE MORE YOU WRITE, the more you become sensitized to language. You start to notice little things that occur around you: accidental puns, malaprops, mixed-up phrases. Any discussion...

Selections from Under the Eye of God.
September 22, 2002... THE CORRIDORS OF NIGHT MESAPORT only pretended solidity. Within the towering rock lay a hidden network of caves and tunnels. Generations of dwellers had spent their summers and winters expanding their warrens like worms tunneling through...

Writing to tell: a spoonful of fiction.
September 22, 2002... Twenty installments of The Clone Chronicles appeared in ETC between 1995 and 2002. Here, the author talks about his efforts to disseminate general semantics through writing fiction. He also reveals some other ideas behind the story. A...

Language matters.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... How we use language determines the way we evaluate our relationship with ourselves, others, and our world. Many human problems can be traced to our ignorance of the ways we use language and the ways language influences us. Alfred Korzybski...

Nous cherchons les oiseaux.(We seek the birds)
September 22, 2002... On May 18, 2002, 12 intrepid birders from the Pacific Northwest boarded a plane for a two-week adventure in France, sponsored by the Audubon Society of Portland. Our trip leaders, Bob Lockett and Adrienne Wolf-Lockett, found themselves trying...

Mathematical certainties and operational doubts: autobiography of a Renaissance man.(Anatol Rapoport)
September 22, 2002... "I noted the emphasis on the two fundamental questions that constitute the foundation of scientific cognition, 'What do you mean?' and 'How do you know?"' Anatol Rapoport WHEN ANATOL RAPOPORT wrote his life story, Certainties and...

Leadership, shared meaning, and semantics.
September 22, 2002... "We all will make inferences; one aspect of leadership concentrates on minimizing our tendency to drift apart in how we assign meaning." "I am saying society is based on shared meanings, which constitute the culture. If we don't share...

Charlotte Schuchardt Read 1909-2002.
September 22, 2002... Charlotte Schuchardt Read, who contributed an immeasurable wealth of insight and gentle direction to the world of general semantics, died in New York City on July 25, 2002 at the age of 92. After an illness of many months, she passed away in...

Some criteria for humanizing.
September 22, 2002... "The growth of studies of our human potentials is giving us a new feeling about ourselves." Introduction and Focuses In the accumulating enormous range of information and deeper understanding of many other cultures than our own, we can...

Hilgartner paper presented in Baden-Baden. (Membership Page).
September 22, 2002... Longtime ISGS member and GS scholar, Dr. C. Andrew Hilgartner, recently attended this year's meeting of the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, which took place in Baden-Baden, July 29-August 3,...

Travelgate. (Metaphors in Action).(metaphors about the Clinton presidency)
September 22, 2002... NOW THAT THE CLINTON PRESIDENCY is over, we are starting to get some closure on the many charges and allegations that were directed against the President and the First Lady, also known as "Bill and Hillary." The Clinton '90s were a time of...

Snooping around the time-binding attic. (From the Archives).
September 22, 2002... Part 2 Wendell Johnson, Francis Chishoim, Russell Meyers, Ray Bontrager, Irving Lee, Samuel Bois IN THE FIRST INSTALLMENT of this series, I related some items of historical interest regarding Alfred Korzybski and the establishment of...

General Semantics at UNLV. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... About 35 students attended a course titled General Semantics and Public Discourse at the University of Nevada this summer. Dr. Martha Watson, Dean of the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs and holder of the Professorship, developed the course...

New books from IGS. (News & Notes).
September 22, 2002... The Institute of General Semantics now has two new titles available. General Semantics in Psychotherapy: Selected Writings on Methods Aiding Therapy, edited by Isabel Caro, Ph.D. and Charlotte Schuchardt Read, with a Foreword by Albert Ellis,...

Lecture 2002, Conference 2003. (News & Notes).
September 22, 2002... J. Allan Hobson, M.D., author of Out of Its Mind: Psychiatry in Crisis (with Jonathan A. Leonard) (Perseus Publishing 2001) will give the 2002 Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture on November 8 in New York City. The Twelfth International...

Appointment at New School University. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Roben Torosyan, formerly Acting Director of the Straus Thinking & Learning Center at Pace University, has been appointed Director of the Writing Center at New School University. The mission of the newly-created Writing Center is to help...

Dallas-Fort Worth Center for GS. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2002... Steve Stockdale reports that the Dallas-Fort Worth Center for General Semantics is now open in an 800 square foot office a short walk from the heart of Forth Worth, Texas: "The Dallas-Forth Worth Center now hosts the complete Alfred Korzybski...

The Tapir's Morning Bath. (Books).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Elizabeth Royte. The Tapir's Morning Bath. New York: Houghton Muffin, 2001. In The Tapir's Morning Bath, Elizabeth Royte describes the variety of biological research projects conducted by several researchers on Barro Colorado Island (BCI),...

The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug. (Books).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K. Bealer. The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug. New York: Routledge, 2001. Caffeine is the world's most consumed drug, far surpassing nicotine and alcohol. It is...

Inside Rikers: Stories from the World's Largest Penal Colony. (Books).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Jennifer Wynn. Inside Rikers: Stories from the World's Largest Penal Colony. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. Rikers Island, just six miles from the Empire State Building, is one of the most complex and expensive penal institutions in...

Fifty years ago. (Retrospect).
September 22, 2002... LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: It would seem the utmost effrontery on my part to speak to you on the subject of the psychological problems of being Negro. I am not a Negro, and never have been. Hence, if any of you want to raise loudly the question,...