Radical General Semantics, Gad Horowitz Lecture 1 - Sept 15, 2009

Professor Gad Horowitz develops and instructs his Spirit of Democratic Citizenship (University of Toronto) seminar as to how General Semantic techniques can be utilized to politicize hegemonic understandings of the world and to develop counter-hegemonic thinking and practice. Gad adapts the principles of General Semantics to democracy; in so doing he radicalizes the rules of engagement producing what he terms Radical General Semanitcs.

In his 2009 first lecture in Radical General Semantics Horowitz discusses the 'semantic blocks' produced by actual existing democracies (AED), introduces the work of Alfred Korzybski and the General Semantics movement, talks about Korzybski's famous statement 'the map is not the territory,' establishes the dysfunction of the 'is' of identity and the importance of non-identity, null A, to radical democracy.

Three key concepts of General Semantics are introduced: WIGO (what is going on), unsane, and e prime.

These ten minute videos are a condensation of a two hour presentation,

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Education

Tags:

• Radical General Semantics
• 'the map is not the territory'
• Alfred Korzybski
• non-identity
• WIGO
• unsane.

[lightcellular]

Please see the video: lightcell - Debugging the Mind with General Semantics, Etc -- any comments welcome! x

[Stillillgal]

THE VENUS PROJECT

[basass101]

this looks like automatic computer tracking. awesome. plus a really cool talk!

[SynerJetics]

Thanks for the post yo.