Creating the Future:
Conscious Time-Binding
for a Better Tomorrow
A Two-Day Symposium
at Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus
Saturday, November 15
& Sunday, November 16, 2008
Co-Sponsors: Institute of General Semantics
New York Society for General Semantics
Media Ecology Association
Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
Lifwynn Foundation for Social Research
Papers, panel discussions, and other presentations that address consciousness and the creative future are welcome and will also be considered for publication in ETC: A Review of General Semantics and the General Semantics Bulletin. Reply by August 1 to NYSGS at:
NYSGS
144 East 36th Street, #6C
New York, NY 10016 info@nysgs.org
(212) 532-1467
For a .pdf version of the call for presentations, click here.
The Symposium will follow and relate to:
The Institute of General Semantics
56th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Dinner and Lecture
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
Playing the Future:
Towards a Creative Society
Friday, November 14, 2008
6pm
The Princeton Club
15 West 43rd Street, NYC
We are in the midst of a renaissance fostered largely by a new relationship to media. This renaissance - like those before it - consists of a shift in our ability to utilize media and comprehend dimension in new ways. Unlike the inventions of text and the printing press, however, the invention of computers and networks invites an ethos of interactivity that might best be characterized as playfulness. Whether our newfound access to participation and collective authorship will promote true agency and more responsive social and public institutions will depend less on the willingness of existing power structures to cede their authority or even the willingness of individuals to assume it, but rather our ability to become conscious of the biases of the media through which we choose to perceive and create. Are we willing to play the future?
