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 Dialectics of Liberation
R.D. Lang, Gregory Bateson and Stokely Carmichael were among those who attended the Congress of Dialect of Liberation 1967. The gathering was a political strategy meeting to figure out how we're going to change society. But it took on a life of its own as events changed over the next few months. It became a place where "the militant left meets the mind blowers of the child"
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