The forty-ninth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our September 2026 podcast features features author, filmmaker, and educator Nora Bateson, who is president of the International Bateson Institute, as well as an IGS trustee, and Nora’s editor and warm data associate Leslie Thulin Eubanks. In conversation with IGS President Lance Strate, they discuss the upcoming double book launch event in New York City on October 7, 2026, hosted by the New York Society for General Semantics and the IGS, following the 74th annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and Symposium on October 2-4, 2026, celebrating Nora Bateson’s brand new book entitled Belly, edited by Leslie Thulin Eubanks, along with a new work by Gregory Bateson entitled Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind: The Course.

You can access Episode 49 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below: