Lance Strate

Broschiertes Buch

Not A, Not Be, &c

Beschreibung

"Not A, Not Be, &c is a collection of essays on general semantics and media ecology, based on the apporach that Alfred Korzybski referred to as a non-aristotelian. The lead essay begins with the concept of the non-aristotelian, also contextualizing and complementing general semantics by way of media ecology, and following Korzybski's lead by grounding it all in physics (and a bit of metaphysics). The second essay relates to the non-aristotelian principle of non-identity, as it reviews the differences between three different types of codes or symbol systems: language, images, and numbers/numerals. The third essay reviews the case against the verb "to be" in general semantics, and considers the broader context by way of linguistics and orality-literacy studies. The fourth essay consists of a reflection on the topic of imagination. The fifth essay combines concepts derived from general semantics and media ecology to provide suggestions for critical thinking. And the final essay reviews the extensional devices that Korzybski originally offered as general semantics correctives for ways in which language can mislead us about the nature of reality, offering a new extensional device, "the and," contextualized via orality-literacy studies"--

Autor

Lance Strate received his BS degree at Cornell University where he majored in Communication Arts, went on to earn an MA degree from the Communication Arts and Sciences Department at Queens College of the City University of New York, and a PhD in the Media Ecology Program at New York University. He currently holds the position of Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, where he has been teaching for 35 years (and counting). As a visiting scholar in 2015 he was selected as the Harron Family Chair in Communication at Villanova University, and was granted an honorary appointment as Chair Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Henan University in Kaifeng, China, in 2016.Dr. Strate has served on the Board of Trustees of the Institute of General Semantics since 2013, and as IGS President since 2020, having previously served as Executive Director from 2008-2011. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Society for General Semantics from 2009 to 2012, as President of the NYSGS from 2016 to 2021, and currently serves as NYSGS Secretary. One of the founders of the Media Ecology Association, he served as the MEA President for over a decade and remains a member of the MEA's Board of Directors. Professor Strate joined the Academic Board of Direc- tors of the Global Listening Centre in 2016, served as Co-Chair of the Board from 2020 to 2023, and was appointed Senior Vice-President for Academic Affairs in 2023. Additionally, he served as President of Congregation Adas Emuno of Leonia, New Jersey for six years, from 2012 to 2018, and remains a member of their Board of Trustees.Lance Strate has received a number of honors, including being selected to deliver the 66th Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture in 2018 and receiving the Sanford I. Berman Award for Excellence in Teaching General Semantics in 2024 and the J. Talbot Winchell Award for Service in 2022 from the Institute of General Semantics, receiving the Outstanding Research Award from the Global Listening Centre in 2020, the Distinguished Research Fellow Award from the Eastern Communication Association in 2019, the Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in 2018 and the Walter Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship in 2013 from the Media Ecology Associ- ation, the Neil Postman Mentor Award in 2019 and the John F. Wilson Fellow Award for exceptional scholarship, leadership, and dedication to the field of communication in 1998 from the New York State Com- munication Association, and the Proclamation by Mayor Wellington E. Webb, in honor of his keynote address to the Rocky Mountain Commu- nication Association, "that February 15, 2002 be known as Dr. Lance Strate Day in the City and County of Denver."Lance Strate has authored and edited 18 books, including First Letter of My Alphabet (2023), Concerning Communication: Epic Quests and Lyric Excursions Within the Human Lifeworld (2022), Diatribal Writes of Passage in a World of Wintertextuality (2020), Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition (2017), Taking Up McLuhan's Cause: Perspectives on Media and Formal Causality (2017), Thunder at Darwin Station (2015), The Medium is the Muse: Channeling Marshall McLuhan (2015), Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman's Brave New World Revisited (2014), Korzybski and ... (2012), On the Binding Biases of Time and Other Essays on General Semantics and Media Ecology (2011), and Communication and Cyber-space: Social Interaction in an Electronic Environment (1996, 2003). He has also served as editor of the Speech Communication Annual, the General Semantics Bulletin, and Explorations in Media Ecology, a journal he founded and edited for 9 years. Translations of his writing have appeared in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Hebrew, Mandarin, and Quenya.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Institute of General Semantics
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781970164275
• ISBN-10: 1970164271
• Artikelnr.: 72602689