Anthony Chaney, “Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness” (UNC Press, 2017)
New Books in Systems and Cybernetics
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Darwin's New Orientation to the Life Sciences
There was already a tension in modernity between science and other forms of thinking. Bateson drawing on ideas of the Macey conferences, which is the series of conferences that lays down the foundation of the information age. He wants to take that concept and make it central to the life sciences. And that's really his lifelong project.
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