Episode 47 Featuring Christopher Mayer

Episode 48 Featuring Michelle Shocked and Sue Zizza

IGS Summer Seminar 2026

Discourse, Dialogue, & Democracy 2 First Session SD 480p

Discourse, Dialogue, & Democracy 2 Second Session SD 480p

Discourse, Dialogue, & Democracy 2 Third Session SD 480p

Discourse, Dialogue, & Democracy 2 Fourth Session SD 480p

Discourse, Dialogue, & Democracy 2 Fifth Session SD 480p SD 480p

Discourse, Dialogue, & Democracy 2 Sixth Session

Semantic Reactions 46 Featuring David Brin

Episode 45 Featuring Dace Luters-Thümmel

Episode 44 Featuring Sarah L. Kaufman

Episode 43 featuring Peggy Cassidy, Thom Gencarelli, & Lance Strate on Media Ecology

Episode 42 Featuring Kevin McMahon

Mary H Lahman "An Extensional Orientation Exemplar for Building Meaningful Connections"

Jessie Lydia Henshaw “Is Something New and Unexpected Taking Over?”

Joshua Meyrowitz “Digitally Divided Discourse and Threats to Democracy”

Sadam Fujioka “The Mimicry Frames and Some Other Artworks”

Richard Thames “Thoughts Anent the Mind Body Relation in Kenneth Burke”

Grace Foley “The Evolution of Irish Identity”

Hye Yeon Nam & Brendan Harmon “Particle Forest”

Scott Hessels “Elemental Art: Creative Artefacts from Force, Reactions, & Streams”

Robert Albrecht “How to Build an Ark: Nine Strategies for Surviving the Digital Deluge”

Robert T Ackland “Why Do We Read Foreign Text?”

Elsa Sanchez Huerta “Bet. Maps & Analogies: Dialogue Bet. Gen. Semantics & Analogical Hermeneutics"

Diego Trujillo Pisanty “Artwork as Experiment: Finding Meaning through Coding and Electronics”

Ricardo Meneses Trujillo & Pedro Gil González “Dialogue as an Instrument for Peace”

Fred Cheyunski “Logical Fate & Fragile Futures: Rethinking Media Literacy, Learning, and Democracy"

Noura Ahmad Hajjaj “Semantics for a Fractured Democracy”

Gohar Aznauryan “Semantic Hegemony in the Digital Age: Rethinking Tech Corp's as Meaning Mediators"

Erik Garrett “Reestablishing Democratic Media of Communication”

Lance Strate “GIGO vs WIGO: Coming to Terms with AI via ĀI (Non-AI)”

Tiffany Petricini "Reclaiming the Map: Algorithmic Mediation, GS, & the Future of Public Participa."

Jonathan R Slater “The Relentless Hegemony of Artificial Intelligence"

Valerie Peterson “Metaphors of AI—And Two to Grow On”

Laura Trujillo Liñan “The Death of Dialogue: Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”

Chris Chesher “Rethinking Autonomy: How Restaurant Robots Came to Serve”

Stefanie Wasserman “Algorithm of Desire”

Huike Wen “Romance as a Medium: Lin Huiyin’s Relationships in Transmedia Intertextual Discourse”

Laura Meneses Trujillo “Unmasking Utility: Truth, Love, & Human Flourishing in a Technological Age"

Joshua Clements & Anthony Luchini “Yes, And…: Teaching General Semantics Through Improv”

David Hewson “A Reflexive Model of Human Communication”

Özüm Üçok Sayrak “The Whisper, the Gift, & the Not Knowing: Re the Mystery and Paradox of Comm.

Thom Gencarelli “Why AI Will Never Be Able to Time Bind”

Ryan McCullough “The General Semantics Trad.: Charting a Course to a Democratic Counter-Environment

Peter Zhang "Flusser's Philosophy of Dialogue"

David H Lee “The Cybernetics of Polarization, Radicalism, and the Attention Economy”

Jermaine Martinez “Moods, Maps, & the Post Political: Evaluating the Atmosphere of Public Discourse"

Brandy Monk Payton “Streaming TV or, Towards a Neoliberal Apocalypse”

Jeffu Warmouth My Life in Analog Synthesis”

Fabiola Ballarati Chechetto “No maps! Becoming ruins:dust Possible cartographies?”

Janie M H Fritz “What’s in a Name? Implications of Professional Instructional Titles”

Steve Stockdale “The Creation of a General Semantics ‘Family Tree’"

Gabriel Kennedy “Semantic Engineering: Robert Anton Wilson and the Rewiring of Human Thought”

Dom Heffer “Painting the Differentials”

Gina Valenti “User vs Bot”

Eva Berger “Prompting AI: The Language of Questions, Queries, and Commands”

Julia Hildebrand “The Prompt as The Message: Generative AI, Medium Bias, and Communication Literacy

Katherine Liepe Levinson Text To Body Prompts: The Personal and Cultural Power Of Prompts”

Mariana Vázquez González “Semantics of Action: Using Lang. to Drive Habits, Motivation & Decisions