
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 Ecology of Ideas
Bateson talks about seeing the problems in a, what I would call ecological or environmental or relational way. He doesn't make a distinction between culture and nature, really. He's looking for a kind of a way to talk about them on a continuum. The ecology of ideas, the ecology of mind is the way Bateson talks about it.
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