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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The Fallout Between Mead and Bates
He collaborated with Margaret Mead, but there was a falling out with her. He doesn't believe that the role of science is to make those kinds of applications. If you do that, if you apply your science, then you're taking it down a road that's going to corrupt it in some way. We'll come back to that in a little bit.
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