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The book will interest anyone who knows the work of Nora Bateson, her father Gregory Bateson and the International Bateson Institute: social and organizational theorists and practitioners, futurists, ecologists, systems thinkers, educationalists, psychotherapists, and general readers concerned with where our world is heading.
KeywordsWarm Data, belly, aphanipoiesis, systems thinking, education, food, family, food systems, learning, health, social anthropology, environmentalism, Nora Bateson, Gregory Bateson, cybernetics, complexity, inter-learning, knowledge, transcontextuality, Ecological Design
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bellyNora BatesonBelly is a cookbook with almost no recipes. It is Nora Bateson's love letter to the kitchens, gardens, markets, and hospital wards where life actually happens.
In Belly, Nora uses her own stories, poetry, essays, vignettes and weaves in artwork created by herself, her family and collaborators Leslie Thulin Eubanks, Rachel Hentsch and Vivien Leung, Nora follows food as it moves through bodies, families, economies and ecosystems, showing how every meal is entangled with illness and healing, migration and belonging, climate and capitalism, grief and celebration. In Belly, cooking sits beside systems theory, and family anecdotes become enquiries into power, trauma and possibility. A pot of soup can carry the memory of a revolution; a hospital meal can expose the violence of an entire healthcare system; a shared pudding can make a fragile kind of future feel briefly possible. Written from the stove, the sickbed, the picket line and the airport lounge, Belly invites us to taste the complexity of our everyday lives. It asks what – and whom – we are really feeding, and how we might learn to nourish each other differently. Belly is for people who sense that “everything is interconnected” but know those words are not enough... for people who feel the ache of trying to make change within systems that keep reproducing the same harms.
If you are drawn to ecology, politics, activism, embodiment, or questions of agency and sense‑making, and you find yourself suspicious of neat frameworks and 7-step solutions, this book is written to sit with you at the kitchen table. It offers companionship and challenge to anyone learning how to live, decide, and relate without giving up on beauty, humour and care. Belly begins with an impossible task: how do you write a recipe for a glass of water, or for change? From that question it unfolds as a metalogue, a conversation whose form mirrors its subject, blending essays, stories, poems, recipes and artwork into a kind of philosophic cookbook for living in entangled times.
Nora Bateson writes about grief, appetite, microbiomes and mycelia, family meals and global crises, asking what it means to sense and respond in a world where there are no clean edges between you and everything you are in relation with. It is a book to read slowly, to dog‑ear and to spill on, as you learn to notice how your own belly is already holding the world. Read the Opening Chapter
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