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Tags: Anthropology; cybernetics; systems thinking; ecology; psychology; linguistics; evolution; communication
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Gregory Bateson's  ' Ecology of Mind': The Course

Edited by Phillip Guddemi
​​​With Introductions by  Nora Bateson & Phillip Guddemi

Gregory Bateson’s legendary UCSC lectures on “ecology of mind” are brought together in print for the first time in this unique volume.

Based on newly transcribed recordings from the 1970s, The Course follows Bateson as he explores pattern, communication and relationship across biology, language, culture and politics. Moving between blackboard diagrams, classroom exercises and wide-ranging stories, he invites students to see life as a web of interconnected systems.

In these vivid, improvisational lectures, Gregory Bateson invites his students to look again at the patterns that make life possible – from the growth of plants and the development of embryos to the rituals of churches, classrooms and nation states. He treats grammar, evolution and everyday conversation as part of one unfolding study of “mind in nature”.

The Course lets you sit in his classroom: listening as Bateson puzzles aloud, challenges his audience and slowly assembles a way of thinking that is equal to a complex, damaged world.
Gregory Bateson died in 1980, but his work grows more and more relevant each year. In his wide-ranging, penetrating thought he illuminated many dimensions of human interaction and of our connection to the wider biological world.

Readership

This book is for scholars, students and practitioners in systems thinking, ecology, anthropology and communication studies, as well as readers of Gregory, Mary Catherine and Nora Bateson.

​It will also appeal to educators, therapists, organisational consultants and environmental activists who are looking for more relational, ecological ways of understanding learning, conflict and change, along with general readers of ecological philosophy and cultural critique.

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Small Arcs of Larger Circles

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