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From the editor.
WITH THIS ISSUE, THE EDITORSHIP changes hands with grateful acknowledgment to the editors who have come before. It seems to us that our mission is as important as ever as we do what we can to address the problems of the semantic environment. For those of us in the U.S., this issue comes on the heels of a presidential election that greatly contributed to the semantic pollution. When Sarah Palin complimented the residents of "real America" she strengthened the two-dimensional, either-or thinking of much of the country. Either you live in "real" America, or you are catapulted into the connotative land of some unspecified alternative. And not to let the victor off the hook, many people voted for "change we can believe in," which is as good as saying "insert your preferences here while I continue speaking in abstractions so high that you can't help but agree with me." Our continued hope is that we can convince political leaders to speak more concretely and when they do not, let us help our fellow voters recognize the ways they are using language to obscure rather than illuminate.
This issue also follows the 56th annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the attendant symposium, "Creating the Future: Conscious Time Binding for a Better Tomorrow." Douglas Rushkoff ...
- Alfred Korzybski.
- Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics Postman, Neil December 22, 2003 700+ words
...each passing year, my respect for Alfred Korzybski increased and my respect for those...name of Malinowski's countryman Alfred Korzybski, the founder of general semantics...ancestry and referred to himself as Count Alfred Korzybski, which did not endear him to academics...
- Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics December 22, 2001 700+ words
...book, Plato, Not Prozac, gave the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture on November 9, 2001...semantics. The award was presented at the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Dinner on November 9, 2001...challenging world." AKML 2002 The next Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture will be on November...
- Anthropologist presents 53rd Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture.(Robert...
- Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics Hoffmann, Gregg July 1, 2005 700+ words
...moved on to studying the works of Alfred Korzybski. Carneiro combined what he learned...Those who attended Carneiro's Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture on April 22 were...t know if Leslie White ever cited Alfred Korzybski in his work, but they shared a common...
- Philosophical Practitioner Will Present the 2001 Alfred Korzybski Memorial...
- Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics SANTER, MARTHA June 22, 2001 700+ words
...Not Prozac will present the next Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture on November 9, 2001...illuminate and improve our lives. The Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lectures began in 1952 with...and author. Last year, the 2000 Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture was given by Robert...
- Changing "human nature." (steps proposed by semanticist Alfred Korzybski)
- Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics Bourland, D. David, Jr. September 22, 1994 700+ words
...mores or laws, etc. Then along came that old tease, Alfred Korzybski, who said, "We need not blind ourselves with the old...understand more dearly what we have to deal with. In 1921 Alfred Korzybski presented us with what he called a functional definition...
- Alfred Korzybski memorial lecture and colloquium.
- Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics Hoffman, Gregg December 22, 1997 700+ words
...general semantics - offers more effective evaluative tools than many static Aristotelian systems. That seemed to sum up the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture by Robert Anton Wilson, November 7th, 1997, and a colloquium the following day at Pace University...
- Introduction of Alfred Korzybski at a luncheon in his honor: New York city,...
- Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics Chase, Stuart December 1, 2004 700+ words
...utility to all workers in the fields of medicine, of science, of education, of social problems, of human communications--Alfred Korzybski. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From the IGS archives. Stuart Chase wrote The Tyranny of Words.
- ALBERT SCHWEITZER AND ALFRED KORZYBSKI: TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHAMPIONS OF HUMANITY
- Magazine article from: et Cetera Levinson, Martin H January 1, 2009 700+ words
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) and Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) were European-born contemporaries with powerful and wide-ranging intellects who devoted themselves to alleviating...
Source: HighBeam Research, From the editor.