General Semantics

Essay // “What Can You Do for General Semantics? (J. Talbot Winchell Award Acceptance Speech) // ETC: A Review of General Semantics

My acceptance speech for the 2018 J. Talbot Winchell Award, given by the Institute of General Semantics, was recently published in the institute’s journal, ETC: A Review of General Semantics.

The speech is titled “What Can You Do for General Semantics?”  The issue in which the speech appears is ETC 75:3-4.

Video of the acceptance speech is online on IGS’s YouTube channel. An introduction by IGS treasurer Jacqueline Rudig is also online.

Award // 2018 J. Talbot Winchell Award // Institute of General Semantics

This evening at the Princeton Club in New York City, I accepted the 2018 J. Talbot Winchell Award, given by the Institute of General Semantics.

The award was given as part of the annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture event sponsored by IGS.

Upon receiving the award, I presented an acceptance speech titled “What Can You Do for General Semantics?”

Video of the acceptance speech is online on IGS’s YouTube channel. An introduction by IGS treasurer Jacqueline Rudig is also online.

New Essay Published in “ETC: A Review of General Semantics” // “The Challenges Facing General Semantics”

etc-70-3-coverEarlier this year as a board member for the Institute of General Semantics, I was posed three questions:

  1. In what ways and to what extent can GS continue to assist in the development of society in the contemporary (e.g. PTSD)?
  2. What are the primary challenges currently facing GS?
  3. What should be/ could be the future direction of the GS?

My response became an essay just published in our journal, ETC: A Review of General Semantics. The essay is the first for the new column titled “Perspectives.”

The essay — titled […]

New Essay Published in “ETC: A Review of General Semantics”

etc-70-3-coverAn essay I wrote this year redefining the field of semantics to better understand and define the field of general semantics was recently published in the journal ETC: A Review of General Semantics.

The essay — titled “On Semantics and General Semantics: Redefining the Former to Understand the Latter” — appears in ETC Volume 70, Issue 3 and kicks off the issue as the lead article.

Newly Published Work // Essay on “New” Alfred Korzybski Transcript

Just now coming out is a new essay of mine published in ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Volume 68, Number 2. The essay–titled “Introduction to ‘Difficulties in Learning to Apply General Semantics'”–is a companion piece to a transcript I edited of a recording of Alfred Korzybski from 1947. That transcript follows my introductory essay and had never before been published, essentially making for “new” Alfred Korzybski work over 61 years after his death.

You can download a copy of ETC 68:2 from the Institute of General Semantics website.

Click here to download ETC 68:2 and […]

What I’ve Been Up To Lately

I’ve had a number of things going on in my life recently and I thought I’d bring your attention to them. I have even more things going on than what I’m listing, but here are some of the things I’m really excited to note.

Stand-In Central
http://standincentral.com

In March 2010, I officially launched Stand-In Central, a helpful resource for the TV and film stand-in. A lot of my work is as a stand-in, a job that is to some degree shrouded in mystery. Not only is it a mystery to the average joe not in production, but […]

Off the Map, My General Semantics Blog, Officially Released

Check another thing off the to-do list: I have a new blog!

I’ve officially released my general semantics blog titled “Off the Map.” It can be found at the following address:

http://benhauck.com/offthemap

You can also access it via the “GS Blog” box at the right.

This blog is special in that it will have a companion Feature regularly running in ETC: A Review of General Semantics, the journal for general semantics. To subscribe to ETC, become a member of the Institute of General Semantics. You can do so by clicking here.

The blog will feature my […]

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