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- Epistemology, Autopoiesis, Complexity, Evolution

My bold suggestions in this paper, as an artisan-anthropologist-therapist, are as follows: (a) human manufacturing of objects brings about individual/collective (deep well-being) experiences of beauty and grace and (b)‘making artifacts’ represents an important ancient continuity in (social-cultural-biological) humanization. Combining these two assertions suggests a universal existence of ‘crafting in the world’. The argument was ignited by the termination of both my mother’s and father’s family blacksmithing workshops in the twentieth century. Being a technical engineer/craftsman in my first career, and being one of six sons, I was deeply puzzled about why and how our transgenerational arts and crafting family tradition would die out when my father closed down his metal construction workshop in 1986. My great-uncles from mother’s side had already closed down their smithy decades earlier.

- by Dirck Van Bekkum
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- Anthropology, Aesthetics, Ecosystems Ecology, Child and adolescent mental health

An essay on the effects of media on humanity and its future

- by Lucas Pawlik
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- Technology, Media Studies, Narrative, Storytelling

Violence: a systemic reading. Towards a relational anthropology Abstract This paper presents the topic of violence considered by a twofold point of view: the epistemological stance of complex thought and the scientific stance of change in dynamic systems. Our basic presupposition is that the definitions of violence and of violent practices are always historical and context-dependent and that each social system acts to fight or to strengthen these definitions and this practices: the social environment, where a lot of human actors does interact, informs always us about the limits within which the violent phenomena may and must be considered. Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are necessary conditions to profitably approach this investigation field. Cultural anthropology is situated in a strategic spot within the broader field of complex system sciences, as an open discipline placed in ongoing dialogue with many other branches of knowledge, and as a field able to challenge many presuppositions in our traditional cognitive practices, that were taken for granted until now, and to seek more effective practices and conceptual landscapes for the understanding of our world.

- by Arianna Barazzetti and +1
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- Violence, Gregory Bateson, René Girard, Estudios sobre Violencia y Conflicto

Este es el trabajo final que escribí en 2019 para la Cátedra, Humanidad, evolución y ecología a cargo de Rolando Silla y Debora Swistun.
La consigna era escribir una especie de Ensayo relacionando algo que hayamos visto con los autores que vimos durante el cuatrimestre.
Así escribí este análisis de la Serie One strange rock ( USA) y Villefranche ( Francia) bajo la lupa de algunos autores de la Antropólogos de la mente.

- by Diana Laurencich
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- Samuel Butler, Gregory Bateson, Tim Ingold, Philippe Descola
- by Ian Angus
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- Critical Theory, Communication, Media Studies, Digital Media
- by Colin John Campbell
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- Indigenous Studies, Cybernetics, Gender and Sexuality, Feminism

Abstract The analysis takes up the conjunction of semiotics and cybernetics as a problem in theory construction in the human sciences. From a philosophical per- spective, this is also the ontological problem of communicology: the disciplinary study of human communication. My analysis suggests current conceptions of “semiotics” and “cybernetics” are misunderstood because “information” is assumed as synonymous with “communication” and that the axioms of “mathematics” are identical to those of “logics”. The evidence contained in the misunderstandings is a conflation of reductionist ecology ideas about the “environment” differentiation of (1) human beings [apperceptive organic life], (2) animals [perceptive organic life], and machines [inorganic and constructed mechanisms]. The communicological view argues that a correct understanding of these issues requires a competence in logics and linguistics to determine the metatheory criteria for choosing evidence among humans, animals, and machines. The domain thematic is the phenomenological synergism of human embodiment as expression and perception. In this context, my criterion for evidence is the structure or form of a pure concept of reason (choice making judgment) that is given a priori in consciousness, the notion demonstrated by Immanuel Kant: A notion is a rule that you know before you experience it as a result.

- by Richard L Lanigan
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- Semiotics, Philosophy, Cybernetics, Phenomenology

This chapter explores Bateson's concept of the Mind as Ecology, in the context of philosophical ideas on phenomenology and embodied knowing, and neuroscientific ideas on embodied cognition. It equally links it with ancient oriental ideas regarding the relationship between body, mind and soul, and practices as meditation and yoga to nourish the body as an organ of perception. It then explores its consequences for our ways of knowing, and concludes that the Mind as Ecology needs to be nourished by an Ecology of Knowing including direct and phenomenological knowing, autobio-graphic and experience-based knowing, and formal and science-based knowing. The chapter argues that such Ecologies of Knowing can be realized through the practice of Embodied Transdisciplinary Hermeneutics. It finally presents seven steps to teach Embodied Transdisciplinary Hermeneutics. Two of these steps focus on the learning process as a whole, and five explore particular ways of knowing, and how to teach them.

- by Hans Dieleman
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- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Education

ABSTRACT
The foundation of disciplines is often associated with initial books and their authors. The discipline of speech–communication– communicology is no exception. Books by Albert Craig Baird, Lester Thonssen, and Franklin Hayward Knower serve as the definition of our early discipline. This article is about foresight— the anticipation of future developments for what was initially called “general speech,” whose practitioners have ever since been known as generalists. Departments and schools of communicology are now emerging worldwide as a synthesis of problematics and thematics that used to be called general speech. Knower suggested in 1962 that the beginning of theoretical and applied coherence must begin with a descriptive single-term name. Long overlooked, if known at all, and certainly never reprinted, is Knower’s candidate for a name and definition of a discipline he called communicology. This article is an edited

- by Richard L Lanigan
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- Semiotics, Rhetoric, Phenomenology, Communication Theory

Cet ouvrage propose de comprendre ce qui se joue au moment des interactions communicationnelles en général et en situation de recrutement en particulier. L'ouvrage explore la part du verbal et du nonverbal dans la communication, interroge l'histoire de l'espèce et le rôle de la culture. L'auteur propose ici la présentation de concepts fondamentaux ainsi que leurs applications dans le cadre de l'insertion professionnelle et du développement des organisations.

- by GALINON-MELENEC Béatrice
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- Communication, Higher Education, Constructivism, Culture

This paper weaves together two recurring themes in philosophical and political debates of recent years: the idea, loosely inspired by Walter Benjamin, that describes melancholia as a dominant structure of feeling and desire among the left; and the suggestion that we are currently witnessing a revival of debates on the question of organisation. My argument identifies not one but two left-wing melancholias, the specular relation between which precludes the work of mourning and deprives us of the conditions for thinking organisation concretely. I follows that a real return to the question of organisation can only take place if we escape this melancholic mechanism; I propose that the very idea of organisation might offer us theoretical resources with which to do so. We come to love our left passions and reasons, our analyses and convictions, more than we love the existing world that we presumably seek to alter with these terms or the future that would be aligned with them. … What emerges is a Left that operates without either a deep and radical critique of the status quo or a compelling alternative to the existing order of things. But perhaps even more troubling, it is a Left that has become more attached to its impossibility than its potential fruitfulness, a Left that is most at home dwelling not in hopefulness but in its own marginality and failure, a Left that is caught in a structure of melancholic attachment to a certain strain of its own dead past, whose spirit is ghostly, whose structure of desire is backward looking and punishing. Wendy Brown The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

- by Rodrigo Nunes
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- Gilbert Simondon, Walter Benjamin, Melancholy, Political Organization

We justify the concept of metapatterns as functional patterns or functional principles that are common to a large set of systems that encompass both biology and culture, by starting with the fact that evolved systems, whether biological or cultural, are produced from any iterative sequence of replication, variation, and selection. Therefore the systems that result, with specific functional parts, are formed as wholes that fit particular contexts. The principle of convergence in biological evolution, in which similar structures are independently evolved, is the model that can be extended even beyond biology. If the contexts of evolved systems across widely separated scales are similar, the resulting evolved systems can exhibit convergences that themselves occur at diverse scales. These grand convergences are the metapat- terns. For example, the functional advantage of dynamically separating systems from their environments sets the context for the evolution of the metapattern of borders across various scales. We outline fifteen additional examples of metapat- terns. We also examine the correspondences and differences between metapatterns as a multi-scale approach to systems and the approach from complexity science. We suggest that metapatterns could serve as tools for thinking about a diverse range of topics, and could thereby motivate the transference of generalizations. Finally, we propose that because metapatterns are employed in human thought, they will be useful in formulating new questions for education research, which is the subject of the companion paper.

- by Jeff Bloom
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- Complexity Theory, Pattern Recognition, Complex Systems, Gregory Bateson
- by Alexandre Rigal
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- Gregory Bateson, Erving Goffman, Espace public, Isaac Joseph

Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) was eclectic in his inquiry and study. This essay explores the continuing significance of Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind, an ecology of multifaceted relational dimensions of pragmatic dialogic engagement. Bateson’s insights embrace Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle: that which is under our gaze is phenomenologically transformed (Bateson, 1972; Heisenberg, 1927/2014). This assumption moves dialogic study into a participant/observer genre of observation and influence. Bateson’s approach exemplifies a dialogic sensitivity in his best-known volume, which displays dialogic relational multiplicity as the bedrock of human understanding.

- by Ronald C Arnett
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- Communication, Pragmatics, Dialogue, Gregory Bateson

PurposeThis paper aims to outline recent developments in the field of choreography, especially focusing on the influence of Gregory Bateson&#x27;s ideas. Choreography is progressing towards a form of art that not only deals with... more

- by Michael Klien
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- Cultural Studies, Aesthetics, Dance Studies, Choreography

Cyberbullying has become a major social concern because it raises questions about technoethics. It hasbeen the subject of research, information and prevention activities for different groups to protect against themisuse of technology, and because of that, this paper is based on an exploratory study about the sociologi-cal phenomenon of cyberbullying among Portuguese university students. The paper stresses the connection between the concepts of bullying and cyberbullying while promoting a fexible epistemological model that
highlights the emerging nature of these phenomena based on the theoretical contribution of Gregory Bateson. In the end, the authors present the main conclusions of the empirical study.

- by José P . Neves and +1
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- Cyberstudies, Cyberbullying, Gregory Bateson, Cybercultures

Publiziert in Perner/Pawlik Provokativpädagogik

- by Lucas Pawlik
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- Daoism, Zen Buddhism, Gregory Bateson, Second-Order Cybernetics

Die Arbeit diskutiert die Frage, was das ökonomische Feld, und speziell die "Managementlehre", aus Überlegungen der Postmoderne und vor allem der Soziologie Niklas Luhmanns ziehen kann.
"Summa cum laude"-bewertete Dissertation der Hochschule St. Gallen für Wirtschafts-, Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften vom Juni 1994.
Referent: Prof. Dr. Armin Wildermuth, Ordinarius für Philosophie der Hochschule St. Gallen. Co-Referent: Prof. Dr. Emil Walter-Busch, Professor für Sozialpsychologie und angewandte Sozialforschung, Hochschule St. Gallen.

- by Jan Lentge
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- Management, Friedrich Nietzsche, Postmodernism, Social Systems Theory

The hypothesis of the following essay is that any relationship, even a friendship, is asymmet-ric. At the beginning of the essay, I will analyse asymmetry as the basis of any exchange. Where surplus and subtraction are viewed as interactions' continuous plateaux. I will focus on surplus and subtraction as a way of local strategizing with no general Strategy. Homer's Ulysses is the paradigm of subtraction (Metis) while Shakespeare's Portia the one of surplus (Mercy). As Marcel Mauss (1990), Georges Bataille (1976) and other authors claim: the gift is never free. Subtractions and surplus are always constitutive parts of the exchange, even though the surplus is not always exploitation (as seen with Portia) and the subtraction is not always submission (as in Ulysses). This implies that the rational exchange, in which I sell you something and you buy something from me—providing an adequate quantity of goods, money, or else—is utopic and ideological. The aim of the essay is to support a trans-disciplinary investigation concerning the exchange and to approach asymmetry from different scientific and literary perspectives, an essay on what Gilles Deleuze (1997) called " critical and clinical ". So literary critics and clinical approach are mingled, both of them belong to " life as we know it " (Bérubé 1998).

- by Pietro Barbetta
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- Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Social Psychology, Philosophy

The paper focusses on the central topic of friendship in the ‘Trinummus’ and observes the emerging paradoxes in the text’s staging of relationships between individuals. As it is well known, a specific aspect of this comedy is the representation of ‘amicitia’ as an interactive system involving both affective bounds and social hierarchies, kinship and economic exchanges. The analysis of some passages of the text highlights how the characters may become ‘enmeshed’, i.e. clumsily trapped in the ambiguities and contradictions of these complex relational networks. This analysis allows to investigate, on an anthropological level, the reasons for the unease of the individuals who struggle amid the paradoxes of amicitia, but also to explore, on a dramaturgical level, the ways in which Plautus plays with this complexity and this unease and presents them as comic devices.

- by Renata Raccanelli
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- Pragmatics, Gift Exchange, Roman Comedy, Friendship

La dicotomia identità/contraddizione vede un prevalere del primo termine nella logica classica, che esclude la contraddizione. Tra il Settecento e la prima metà dell’Ottocento la situazione si rovescia. Se Kant dimostra l’inevitabilità della contraddizione per il pensiero, Hegel fa della contraddizione addirittura uno dei cardini del proprio pensiero: non soltanto “tutte le cose sono in se stesse contraddittorie”, ma precisamente la capacità di sostenere/concepire la contraddizione diviene il grande discrimine tra le diverse strutture del reale e tra le diverse categorie del pensiero.

- by Vladimiro Giacché
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- Hegel, Bertolt Brecht, Immanuel Kant, Gregory Bateson
- by Adam Skibiński
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- Philosophy, Gregory Bateson, Ecology of mind

abstract della mia tesi di laurea in filosofia del linguaggio scritta nel 2002 e pubblicata nel 2006 and inAa.Vv.Legàmi. Con Gregory Bateson, Editrice universitaria, Università di Verona, Verona 2006
solo version italian.
Insieme ad altri studentesse e studenti che hanno ricercato per la loro tesi di laurea il pensiero di Gregory Bateson con Chiara ZAmboni docente di filosofia del linguaggio presso l'università di Verona, abbiamo pubblicato gli abstract delle nostre tesi riunite in questo libro.
Il mio testo riguarda le relazioni che ho rintracciato studiando il pensiero di G. Bateson, tra la comunicazione animale e la creazione dell'opera d'arte. La comunicazione e il movimento degli animali avverrebbe in uno stato di grazia che l'artista ricercherebbe nella produzione della sua opera.

- by marta roberti
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- Gregory Bateson, Arte, Schizofrenia, Grazia

1. Einführung ................................................................ 1
2. „Sozialplanung“ und die Anfänge der
Lerntheorie...................................................................2
3. Die Theorie der logischen Typen ..............................2
4. Kontextualisierung .....................................................2
5. Lernen als Veränderung – Lernen NULL ...............3
6. Lernen I ....................................................................3
7. Lernen II – Gewohnheits- und Charakterbildung.......3
8. Lernen III ....................................................................4
9. Lernen IV – Ontogenese plus Phylogenese ........5
Anwendungsversuch I: Lernen II im Kulturvergleich 5
Anwendungsversuch II: Die pädagogische Praxis 5
10. Kritik I: Übertragung der logischen Typen ........5
Kritik II: Fehlende Empirie ......................................6
Kritik III: Epimenides’ Paradoxon ...............................6
Quellen und Literatur: .....................................................6

This article explores an origin of architectural sustainability in the 1970s Californian governmental programs of Governor Jerry Brown and the circle around his Consultant, the countercultural entrepreneur Stewart Brand. Focusing on the Bateson Building, designed by State Architect Sim Van der Ryn and his team to be the world’s first large energy-saving, climate-modulating building, the article traces the ambition of the first Brown Administration to reinvent the state as a unified ecology founded on New Age principles, notably those drawn from the second order cybernetics of the Governor’s Advisor, anthropologist Gregory Bateson. Through archival and published sources drawn from government, environmental policy, cybernetics and architecture, the article recounts an ambitious ecological agenda that included a new Office of Appropriate Technology, a projected Space program, and a Water Atlas. The article argues for a reconsideration of the history of sustainable and postmodern architecture alike.

- by Simon Sadler
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- Architecture, Governance, Countercultural Studies, Architectural History

In this article, I draw on the theories of three scholars whose works have not typically been part of the negotiation and conflict resolution canon (Arthur Koestler, Edward T. Hall, and Gregory Bateson) to develop the beginnings of a new model for creative and constructive conflict transformation that features playfulness and humor as its key components. I explore the connections between Koestler’s theory of bisociation in the act of creation, Hall’s ideas about the cultural construction of emotional responses, and Bateson’s theories about the role of play and humor in human communication. All three authors focused particularly on body language and on the cognitive impact of emotions. Drawing on their theories and the connections between them, I suggest the theoretical underpinnings of a model for approaching conflict in which displacements and surprises, playfulness, humor, and “punch lines” can serve to reframe issues and open up new avenues for consensus building and resolution.

- by Marianella Sclavi
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- Humor, Emotions (Social Psychology), Conflict Resolution, Gregory Bateson

In these two papers, written in 2019, and 2020, I review the development of Green New Deal thinking over the last decade, referring in particular to the growth of a more radical Global Green New Deal, the work of DiEM in Europe, and the engagement of indigenous activists such as the Indigenous Environmental Network and The Red Nation. I review questions about the very possibility of planning that thinkers such as Gregory Bateson can help us to see.

- by Jon Goodbun
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- Gregory Bateson, Green New Deal, European Green New Deal
- by Hillary Keeney
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- Family Therapy, Cybernetics, Marriage & Family Therapy, Systemic Therapy

Las mal llamadas teorías del caos y de la complejidad, elaboradas en las dos últimas décadas del siglo XX y en lo que va del tercer milenio, han aportado numerosos elementos de juicio, elaboraciones algorítmicas y herramientas de trabajo, susceptibles de utilizarse productivamente en las ciencias sociales. Algunos principios de la dinámica no lineal, tales como la auto-organización, la sensitividad a las condiciones iniciales en escenarios caóticos, las complejidades emergentes de la aplicación recursiva de reglas simples, la independencia de escala y las clases de universalidad, deberían ser bien conocidos por los investigadores, cualesquiera sean sus orientaciones teóricas. Lo mismo se aplica a los algoritmos complejos, principalmente a los sistemas adaptativos, las metaheurísticas evolutivas, las distribuciones de ley de potencia, las redes SOM, la criticalidad auto-organizada y por supuesto la geometría fractal.
En este libro se introducen los principales algoritmos que constituyen ese espacio científico, examinándolos desde el punto de vista de las ciencias sociales pero con un espíritu fundamentalmente transdisciplinario. También se practica una clara demarcación entre las prácticas científicas genuinas y las apropiaciones discursivas y programáticas del campo de la complejidad, tales como la autopoiesis, el paradigma de la complejidad de Edgar Morin, las elucubraciones new age de Fritjof Capra y la investigación social de segundo orden.
Temario:
1. Introducción
2. Las grandes teorías de sistemas complejos
2.1 – Tipificación epistemológica: Los cuatro modelos
2.2 – El fundamento común de las teorías de sistemas: Teoría de la Información
2.3 – Cibernética
2.3.1 – Mecanismos de control y retroalimentación
2.3.2 – Aplicaciones antropológicas
2.3.2.1 – Gregory Bateson y la esquismogénesis
2.3.2.2 – Sistemas sociales autorregulados: Siegfried Nadel
2.3.2.3 – La Ecosistémica de Roy Rappaport
2.3.2.4 – Críticas y alternativas procesuales a la ecosistémica
2.4 – La teoría general de sistemas
2.4.1 – Sistemas generales
2.4.2 – Teorías de los sistemas sociales y vivientes
2.4.3 – Aplicaciones de la TGS en ciencias sociales
2.5 – Estructuras disipativas y cibernética tardía
2.5.1 – Sistemas alejados del equilibrio
2.5.2 – La flecha del tiempo: Críticas al modelo de Prigogine
2.5.3 – Autopoiesis y Enacción: Maturana y Varela
2.5.4 – La realidad negada: Constructivismo radical
2.5.5 – Estructuras disipativas en la cultura: Adams
2.5.6 – Paisajes mentales : El Modelo de Maruyama
2.5.7 – El desorden: Balandier y la morfogénesis de la Antropología Dinámica
2.5.8 – La investigación social de segundo orden
2.5.9 – La sociología autopoiética de Niklas Luhmann
2.6 – Teoría de catástrofes
2.6.1 – Singularidades: estabilidad estructural y morfogénesis
2.6.2 – Teoría de catástrofes en ciencias sociales
2.7 – Los paradigmas discursivos de la complejidad
3. Los algoritmos de la complejidad
3. 1 – Emergentes: Sistemas complejos adaptativos
3.1.1 – Autómatas celulares y vida artificial
3.1.2 – Autómatas celulares en ciencias sociales
3.1.3 – Auto-organización en Redes Booleanas Aleatorias
3.1.4 – RBA, agentes y sociedades artificiales en Antropología
3.2 – Conexionismo: Redes neuronales
3.2.1 – El paradigma conexionista de la inteligencia artificial
3.2.2 – Redes neuronales en Antropología
3.3 – El Algoritmo Genético y otras técnicas evolutivas
3.3.1 – La teoría de la evolución como heurística algorítmica
3.3.2 – Aplicaciones de algoritmos genéticos en Antropología
4. Caos y complejidad
4.1 – Caos: Teoría y práctica
4.2 – Caos y criticalidad auto-organizada en las ciencias sociales
4.3 – Medidas y definiciones de la complejidad
4.4 – La contienda entre el caos y la complejidad
4.5 – Teorías del caos y posmodernismo
5. Fractales: La geometría del caos
5.1 – El significado conceptual de los fractales
5.2 – Las geometrías de la naturaleza (y la cultura)
5.2.1 – Curvas monstruosas y dimensiones fraccionales
5.2.2 – Agregación limitada por difusión y movimiento browniano
5.2.3 – Recursividad: El eterno y grácil bucle
5.2.4 – El juego del caos: Sistemas de funciones iteradas (IFS)
5.2.5 – Systemas-L: las gramáticas recursivas del crecimiento
5.2.6 – Mosaicos periódicos y autómatas teselares
5.2.7 – Fractales clásicos, imaginarios y complejos
5.2.8 – Atractores extraños y biomorfos
5.2.9 – Patrones fractales en Arqueología y Antropología Sociocultural
6. Conclusiones

- by Carlos Reynoso
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- Autopoiesis, Gregory Bateson, Antropología, Teorías de la Complejidad
- by Richard Kahn
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- Critical Pedagogy, Critical Animal Studies, Paulo Freire, Ecopedagogy

In questo mio breve elaborato scritto, ho cercato di presentare alcuni passaggi interessanti dell’opera di Gregory Bateson (Grantchester, 9 maggio 1904 – San Francisco, 4 luglio 1980),intitolata "Verso un’ecologia della mente", pubblicata nel 1972.In particolare, ho rivolto l’attenzione ai due saggi contenuti nella quarta parte dell’opera, che tratta i temi della biologia e dell’evoluzione: "Il ruolo del cambiamento somatico nell’evoluzione"
e "Problemi relativi alla comunicazione dei cetacei e di altri mammiferi".

- by Nicola Conati
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- Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Human Rights
- by Michael Klien
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- Dance Studies, Performance Studies, Governance, Philosophy of Art

This article tries to apply Gregory Bateson’s six criteria of mental process to the understanding of a group of musicians improvising from a score. Drawing from a wider concept of score, it tries to demonstrate that this whole system can be considered as a mind in itself. By explaining his presuppositions when considering that such a structuring is possible, a detailed exposition of the criteria is brought forth. The criteria are then applied to an imagined situation of guided improvisation, considering: its parts, the interaction between them, the point where collateral energy flows into the system, its circular chain of determination and the transformations that occur therein, so as to reveal, at the end, a hierarchy of logical types immanent in the system. Particular attention is given after that to the contributions that such an approach brings to the understanding of performance ecosystems. The persistence of a dynamic memory in the system, such as understood by Bateson, is shown to be determinant for the identity and unity of compositions that use guided improvisation.

- by Daniel Puig
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- Musical Composition, Composition (Music), Gregory Bateson, Criteria of mental process

Design thinking is not thinking about design, but rather a re-focus on the way we think, about the world in general, and in this cybernetic process the real self can be brought into being. Gramma/topology is the social structuration of a theory-as-ontology framework with the ability to function as a design educational model that could enrich the teaching and learning of design in all its diverse applications. To paraphrase and deconstruct Derrida, I shall call this model gramma/topology; since such a peculiar field-of-knowing does not exist, in any particular form, before the model is used, no one can say with certainty what the outcome would be, but it has a right to existence, a place staked out in advance for both designer-Dasein and design-Dasein.

- by Johann van der Merwe
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- Communication, Self and Identity, Design education, Sociology of Knowledge

Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) was a multifaceted scholar who embraced fields as diverse as anthropology, linguistics, semiotics, systems theory, and cybernetics. He was an original thinker whose work influenced the growing environmental movement of his day, contributed to the emergence of new fields of investigation, and continues to exert an influence in a variety of disciplines, including ecological and environmental anthropology.

- by Piyush Mathur
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- Psychiatry, Cybernetics, Environmental Communication, Gregory Bateson

En el presente ensayo, se sostiene que nuestras posibilidades de “proseguir la hominización” (Morin y Kern 2006) y de revertir la degradación biosférica y la amenaza biótica dependerán de nuestra capacidad para imaginar, de modo práctico y continuamente, a la Tierra como a un entramado de sistemas con los cuales estamos enmarañados de modo inevitable. El reconocimiento de la integración y la interdependencia con el mundo más-que-humano se perfilan como indispensables para vislumbrar una alternativa viable a la degradación ambiental y social en todo el mundo. Se coincide plenamente con Gregory Bateson, en este sentido, en que son nuestras formas de conocer las que deben ser enmendadas. Y se sugiere que poseemos, hoy, las herramientas para rectificar esas patologías de la epistemología; al menos para emprender su gradual modificación. Más específicamente, se parte de la hipótesis propuesta por Doyle (2011) de que las sustancias “psicodélicas” (que manifiestan la mente) pueden actuar como psicotecnologías “ecodélicas” (que hacen manifiesta nuestra imbricación con el ecosistema). Es decir, que son moléculas que pueden ser instrumentalizadas para hacer patente el hecho de que el ser humano es elementalmente indivisible de la biosfera. Debido precisamente a esta capacidad, se argumenta que dichas sustancias podrían ser fundamentales para recobrar la gracia de reconocer nuestra membrecía interrelacionada dentro de la comunidad de organismos vivientes en el planeta. La “experiencia ecodélica” nos impele a entretejer una nueva narración épica y mítica de re-simbolización y transformación, que nos llama a retomar nuestro lugar adecuado en el cosmos de la evolución. Y con todo ello, se argumenta, se vuelve más factible el promover la solidaridad y la responsabilidad, así como las reformas del pensamiento y la política que tan desesperadamente requerimos en la actualidad.

- by José M Rodríguez Arce
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- Anthropology, Philosophy, Ethics, Cybernetics

The film Don't look up is like a mirror reflecting the consciousness of the world, a mirror showing us through what perverse mechanisms it is possible for the collective power accumulated over 300 years of economic development to be transformed into collective impotence in safeguarding social reproduction in the face of a major threat. And this is not because of a lack of knowledge or technology, but simply because of the way our world is organised. . . .

- by Massimo De Angelis
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- Social Change, Climate Change, Capitalism, Gregory Bateson

Se presentan los antecedentes conceptuales de la Terapia Sistémica y se propone que se consideren elementos para pensar que hay una tradición de investigación a partir de la que se desarrolla la Terapia Sistémica.

- by Pedro Vargas
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- Gregory Bateson