Date/Time
7 Feb 2019 10:30 am - 12:30 pm EST
Details
One in our weekly series of virtual meetings, conducted via Zoom video conference. Sign up for this group to learn how to participate.
Reading Schedule
Legend : GB=Gregory Bateson’s “Steps to an Ecology of Mind” ; NB=Nora Bateson’s “Small Arcs of Larger Circles”
Week 1
GB: Metalogue : Why do things get in a muddle?
GB: Introduction
NB: Acknowledgements/Foreword
Participants Intros
Week 2
GB: Culture Contact and Schismogenesis
NB: If you knew me well you would know that I would give you everything
NB: Breathable (poem)
Week 3
GB: Experiments in Thinking about Observed Ethnological Material
NB: Mental Mono-Cropping
NB: (inter)Facing an Ecology of Mind…
Week 4
GB: Metalogue : Why do Frenchmen?
GB: Moral and National Character
NB: Identity with an I (poem)
NB: We are wine (poem)
Week 5
GB: Bali – The Value System of a Steady State
NB: Policy for Government in the Future
NB: Nourishment
Week 6
GB: Style, Grace and Information in Primitive Art
GB: Comment in Part II
NB: Rain (poem)
NB: Knowledge and Complexity
Week 7
GB: Metalogue : About Games and Being Serious
GB: A Theory of Play and Fantasy
NB: Crispy Dry Moods (poem)
NB: It Goes Without Saying
Week 8
GB: Epidemiology of a Schizophrenia
GB: Towards a Theory of Schizophrenia
NB: River’s Muscle (poem)
NB: Old Growth Redwoods
Week 9
GB: The Group Dynamics of Schizophrenia
NB: Daphne and Apollo
NB: Configuring (poem)
GB: Minimal Requirements for a Theory of Schizophrenia
NB: What’s the Opposite of Opposites
NB: Tears at the Bus Stop
Week 10
GB: Metalogue : How Much Do You Know?
GB: Double Bind
NB: Therapy (poem)
NB: Zombies and the Hitchhiker (or Context Produces Possibility)
Week 11
GB: The Logical Categories of Learning and Communication
NB: The Thing Is… (poem)
NB: Transcontextuality
Week 12
GB: The Cybernetics of « Self » : A Theory of Alcoholism
GB: Comment in Part III
NB: Leadership within the Paradox of Agency
NB: Nothing’s Changed (poem)
Week 13
GB: Metalogue : Why A Swan?
GB: On Empty Headedness Among Biologists and State Boards of Education/The Role of Somatic Change in Evolution
NB: Framing the Symmetry (Art and Complexity)
NB: Almost (poem)
Week 14
GB: Problems in Cetacean and Other Mammalian Communication
NB: Reckless (poem)
NB: Non Trivial Economy
GB: A Re-examination of ‘Bateson’s Rule’
GB: Comment on Part IV
NB: Liminal (poem)
NB: An Ecology of Hurt
Week 15
GB: Metalogue : Why Do Things Have Outlines?
GB: Cybernetic Explanation
Other readings: Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings
NB: Quo Vadis (for Tobbe – poem)
NB: Me Watching You Watching Me Watching You
GB: Redundancy and Coding
NB: Whole Peace (poem)
NB: The Fortune Teller
Week 16
GB: Conscious Purpose Versus Nature
NB: While We Slept
NB: Fools See Outlines (poem)
GB: Metalogue : What is an Instinct?
GB: Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation
NB: Practicality in complexity
NB: Sound of Sun (poem)
Week 17
GB: Form, substance and difference
GB: Comment on Part V
NB: What do you see when you look at her face? How is she feeling now?
NB: Stop that Thing You Do (poem)
Week 18
GB: From Versailles to Cybernetics
NB: Ecology of Love (poem)
NB: Parts & Wholes, Hope & Horror
Week 19
GB: Pathologies of Epistemology
NB: Symmathesy
NB: Integrity (poem)
GB: The Roots of Ecological Crisis
NB: Who Are We Now?
NB: Film-making in the Tidepools
Week 20
GB: Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilization
NB: Christmas is a Time Pivot
NB: Ink
Week 21
Wrap-up, further readings (Where Angels Fear to Tread : Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred)