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Published: 2023
Paperback List Price: £30
386pp. ~ 22.9 x 19.1cm  
 ISBN: 978-1-913743-85-7

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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.
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Keywords

Warm Data, aphanipoiesis, systems thinking, education, learning, health, social anthropology, environmentalism, Bateson, complexity, inter-learning, knowledge, transcontextuality, Ecological Design
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Review - January 2025

"This is a book of extraordinary subtlety and brilliance, combining prose, poetry in a different font, paintings by her associates, and collages with text boxes. Like her father Gregory before her – often directly quoted in these pages – Nora lives in the interstices, in the inbetweenness, in the deep archaeology and ecology of language and coalescing prefigurations...
 
As we move into the uncertainties of 2025 and beyond, we absolutely need the kind of processual and contextual approaches articulated in this book. In this sense, it is a book to sit with, to ponder on, so as to allow a new way of being to seep inside. In one of her poems, Nora poignantly asks ‘how do you pack when you have no idea where you are going?’
 
...Do yourself a favour by making this one of the first books you order in 2025 and keep it close beside you as your companion on the way, as inspiration, as solace, as shelter, as guidance, as bold vision, as outrage and courage, as a wellspring of transformation for which we all yearn so deeply - and which can only emerge from within through the Power of the Spirit, through wielding the sword of justice, freedom and truth to cut through the Gordian knot of insidious corruption and ubiquitous web-like control."

David Lorimer, The Scientific and Medical Network

COMBINING

Nora Bateson


This is the long-awaited second collection of essays, reflections, poems and artwork by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI) and an adviser to numerous bodies at international and governmental level. 

The book is an embodiment of her recent work on Warm Data and offers a radical ecological approach to many of the key issues of our time: climate change, political upheaval, education, health, food and relationships.

In Combining, Nora Bateson invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off a chain of incalculable consequences. She challenges conventional fixes for our problems, highlighting the need to tackle issues at multiple levels, understand interdependence, and embrace ambiguity.

Insisting on our collective responsibility to confront the looming threats to humanity‘s survival, she advocates change through interconnectedness and challenges us to rethink our perspectives on relationships, community, and the very essence of being human.

A blend of intellectual inquiry, essays, emotional engagement, storytelling, poetry and graphic art, Combining is an invitation to nurture genuine connections and navigate a world brimming with “Warm Data” – the interrelationships that integrate elements of every complex system. The book calls on us to shed our linear thinking and embrace “Aphanipoiesis” – the unseen ways in which life comes together to foster vitality and propel evolution.

In Combining, love, humor, curiosity, and vulnerability entwine amidst the trials of a world in flux. As we face the Polycrisis, Nora Bateson urges us to swerve from the traditional paths and to dismantle the illusions of fitting in. She beckons us to step into a world where learning, uncutness, and readiness converge, promising both revelation and revolution.

​The two short films below - by Rachel Hentsch  - give  a    peek into the making of   Combining   

Stretching Edges - peek into the making of... from Rachel Hentsch on Vimeo.

Blobs Combining - a peek into the "making of"... from Rachel Hentsch on Vimeo.

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“Nora Bateson is doing with words what language has no capacity for. I fell in love with it right from the start.”
Bayo Akomolafe, Author of These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home, Global Senior Fellow of The Othering & Belonging Institute

​“A masterwork. Please avail yourself of this heartfelt, brilliant, yet entirely accessible guide to the lived experience of complexity. Bateson shows how to engage with our personal and collective challenges less as problems to be solved than as systems calling for understanding, compassion, and harmonious engagement. Continuing the inquiries of Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and a couple of Batesons before her, Nora has defined a new and vital landscape in a book that will take its place alongside their best remembered works. There is still a way for us to flourish; here’s how.”
Douglas Rushkoff, Author of Team Human and Survival of the Richest
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“ ... The imagery in Nora’s writing is an exquisite depiction of Living Systems. We all can grow from this brilliant work of art, poetry, stories and more woven together, magically.”
Carol Sanford, Author and Podcaster, Executive Producer of The Regenerative Business
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“This compilation is full of delicious insights that call us to witness the awe-inspiring breadth of possibilities that emerge from our entanglement. When we loosen our grip, and dive into the web of relationships we will begin to understand the abundance of potential pathways we have before us...”
Vicki Saunders, Founder, Coralus (formerly SheEO)

“Nora Bateson reminds us in this book — and in how she thinks, speaks, and inhabits this world — that our hope lives not in our cleverness, but in our vulnerability, in our wildness, in our feral creativity, and most of all among our relationships, in our animate communications with each other and all living beings. This book is an exercise in living ecologically.”
Rex Weyler, Co-Founder, Greenpeace International​



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