Lance Strate
@lancestrate.bsky.social
Author, Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University, President of the Institute of General Semantics, Founder of the Media Ecology Association
This Wednesday in NYC, free but registration required @generalsemantics.org
Institute of General Semantics - Digital Tsunami Film Screening
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October 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This Wednesday in NYC, free but registration required @generalsemantics.org
NYC 10/29 screening of Digital Tsunami documentary, Q&A w/filmmaker, cash bar, otherwise free & open to the public, but registration required for entry generalsemantics.org/event-6284123
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Institute of General Semantics - Digital Tsunami Film Screening
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October 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
NYC 10/29 screening of Digital Tsunami documentary, Q&A w/filmmaker, cash bar, otherwise free & open to the public, but registration required for entry generalsemantics.org/event-6284123
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Latest episode of the @generalsemantics.org podcast Semantic Reactions, on the Coro program and it’s relation to general semantics youtu.be/lFPrHAs9tR0?...
Semantic Reactions 36 Featuring Keith Clark and Ted Delicath
YouTube video by InstituteofGS
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August 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Latest episode of the @generalsemantics.org podcast Semantic Reactions, on the Coro program and it’s relation to general semantics youtu.be/lFPrHAs9tR0?...
Institute of General Semantics - Call for Papers for the AKML Symposium
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August 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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This past February at The Players in NYC: Thom Gencarelli & I talk to @lancestrate.bsky.social about his latest book Not A, Not B, &c youtu.be/mz_Kyu2YGmo?...
Book Launch: Not A, Not B, &c by Lance Strate
YouTube video by New York Society for General Semantics
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July 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This past February at The Players in NYC: Thom Gencarelli & I talk to @lancestrate.bsky.social about his latest book Not A, Not B, &c youtu.be/mz_Kyu2YGmo?...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Opinion | Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ at 40: Truer than ever - The Washington Post
Opinion | The world is choking on screens. Just as this book foretold.
Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” at 40 is truer than ever.
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July 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Opinion | Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ at 40: Truer than ever - The Washington Post
Gratifying to see that one of my MA students got something out of the class he took with me
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Catholic influencers have a media theory (and evangelization) problem
Do the social networks that Catholic influencers are forming online reflect the values of the Gospel or those of the platform?
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July 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Gratifying to see that one of my MA students got something out of the class he took with me
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I was interviewed by El Heraldo de Mexico about media ecology, in conjunction with the MEA’s annual convention, hosted by Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City
June 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I was interviewed by El Heraldo de Mexico about media ecology, in conjunction with the MEA’s annual convention, hosted by Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City
Latest episode of the @generalsemantics.org podcast features a discussion on higher education in the US today
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Episode 33 Featuring Corey Anton, Peggy Cassidy, Susan Drucker, Thom Gencarelli, & Lance Strate
YouTube video by InstituteofGS
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May 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Latest episode of the @generalsemantics.org podcast features a discussion on higher education in the US today
youtu.be/5u828Y_7BYA?...
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Call for Papers for the Institute of General Semantics annual symposium following the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture featuring Tristan Harris, NYC, October 3-5
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Institute of General Semantics - Call for Papers for the AKML Symposium
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May 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Call for Papers for the Institute of General Semantics annual symposium following the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture featuring Tristan Harris, NYC, October 3-5
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Gary Gumpert memorial & screening of his 1960 TV program “Gutenberg Galaxy” featuring Marshall McLuhan now available for viewing on the @generalsemantics.org YouTube channel
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Gumpert Memorial and McLuhan Screening - YouTube
A Memorial Tribute to Gary Gumpert and a screening of "Gutenberg Galaxy" Sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics Co-sponsored by the New York Society...
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May 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Gary Gumpert memorial & screening of his 1960 TV program “Gutenberg Galaxy” featuring Marshall McLuhan now available for viewing on the @generalsemantics.org YouTube channel
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The parallel to the selection of Pope Leo XIV is Pope John Paul II. The first Polish pope was chosen to counter Soviet Communism. The first American pope is a counter to Trump and right wing extremism. #pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The parallel to the selection of Pope Leo XIV is Pope John Paul II. The first Polish pope was chosen to counter Soviet Communism. The first American pope is a counter to Trump and right wing extremism. #pope
Videos from the @generalsemantics.org Communication, Consciousness, & Culture 2 online symposium now available for viewing www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Communication, Consciousness, & Culture 2 Online Symposium April 19th, 2025 - YouTube
The Institute of General Semantics https://generalsemantics.org Communication, Consciousness, & Culture 2 An Online Symposium April 19th, 2025 As this is a Z...
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May 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Videos from the @generalsemantics.org Communication, Consciousness, & Culture 2 online symposium now available for viewing www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
April episode of Semantic Reactions, official podcast of @generalsemantics.org features Chris Mayer interviewed on “trade deficit”, “tariffs”, & “money”
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Semantic Reactions 32 Featuring Christopher Mayer
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April 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
April episode of Semantic Reactions, official podcast of @generalsemantics.org features Chris Mayer interviewed on “trade deficit”, “tariffs”, & “money”
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Call for submissions for @generalsemantics.org Hayakawa Book Prize, Berman Teaching Award, & Nystrom Prize for grad students
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Institute of General Semantics - Call for 2025 IGS Prizes and Awards:
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April 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Call for submissions for @generalsemantics.org Hayakawa Book Prize, Berman Teaching Award, & Nystrom Prize for grad students
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Honored to receive a Leadership in Listening Award from the Global Listening Centre (p. 22) www.globallisteningcentre.org/wp-content/u...
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April 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Honored to receive a Leadership in Listening Award from the Global Listening Centre (p. 22) www.globallisteningcentre.org/wp-content/u...
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We live in stressful times. Given that, it's useful to zoom out and see the current media landscape (print, radio, TV, www, social media) from a broader philosophical perspective. That's what Tristan Harris does with guests Sean Illing and @lancestrate.bsky.social
www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-...
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The Man Who Predicted the Downfall of Thinking
Forty years ago, Neil Postman warned that “we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.” He was writing about TV, but his insights feel eerily prophetic in our age of smartphones, socia...
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March 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
We live in stressful times. Given that, it's useful to zoom out and see the current media landscape (print, radio, TV, www, social media) from a broader philosophical perspective. That's what Tristan Harris does with guests Sean Illing and @lancestrate.bsky.social
www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-...
www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-...
On the new episode of Tristan Harris's podcast Your Undivided Attention I was a guest w/Sean Illing talking about Postman. On the Center's website:
<https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-man-who-predicted-the-downfall-of-thinking>
and on YouTube: <https://youtu.be/WPr9h-yb1rU?si=rTrqRyfmshRhjmKv>
<https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-man-who-predicted-the-downfall-of-thinking>
and on YouTube: <https://youtu.be/WPr9h-yb1rU?si=rTrqRyfmshRhjmKv>
March 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
On the new episode of Tristan Harris's podcast Your Undivided Attention I was a guest w/Sean Illing talking about Postman. On the Center's website:
<https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-man-who-predicted-the-downfall-of-thinking>
and on YouTube: <https://youtu.be/WPr9h-yb1rU?si=rTrqRyfmshRhjmKv>
<https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-man-who-predicted-the-downfall-of-thinking>
and on YouTube: <https://youtu.be/WPr9h-yb1rU?si=rTrqRyfmshRhjmKv>
Reposted by Lance Strate
Best thing I’ve heard on how we got here and the questions we need to ask to break the spell. Tristan Harris, Sean Illing, and Lance Strate on Neil Postman and how media environments reshape how we participate in democracy.
www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-...
www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-...
The Man Who Predicted the Downfall of Thinking
Forty years ago, Neil Postman warned that “we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.” He was writing about TV, but his insights feel eerily prophetic in our age of smartphones, socia...
www.humanetech.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Best thing I’ve heard on how we got here and the questions we need to ask to break the spell. Tristan Harris, Sean Illing, and Lance Strate on Neil Postman and how media environments reshape how we participate in democracy.
www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-...
www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-...
I suppose to re-bell is to raise the alarm, sound the warning. Maybe not a coincidence that Poe lived near Fordham University’s Rose Hill campus in the Bronx, where I teach. He wrote The Bells being inundated from the ringing from our campus chapel
Rebel Academics? | Lance Strate & The Media Ecologists (Not a rock band(!)) Link in 1st comment!)
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February 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I suppose to re-bell is to raise the alarm, sound the warning. Maybe not a coincidence that Poe lived near Fordham University’s Rose Hill campus in the Bronx, where I teach. He wrote The Bells being inundated from the ringing from our campus chapel