
Peter Harries-Jones, “Upside-Down Gods: Gregory Bateson’s World of Difference” (Fordham UP, 2016)
New Books in Systems and Cybernetics
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The Importance of Interactive Reflection in Communication
The reason it was completely replaced was because of an objection that I made right at the beginning. We were doing social networks with a quasi-graphic, actually it's called a directed graph,. The book is published as a notion of a personal network and we will not go by not going to the dyadic interactive and reflective aspects of this in this particular book. So that's what happened. But I was looking then for a way into discussing the interactive reflective aspects, and this is, and I looked at the world of communication, and I couldn't find anything that really satisfied me except perhaps a little bit of Gregory Bison.
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