
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 Double-Bundled: A Metaphor for Social and Human Problems
Schizophrenia in your book becomes a metaphor for a whole range of social and human problems. Can you make that connection? Does society being schizophrenic? Right, well, I think we're really getting to what I'm trying to do in the book here. This is the age of schizophrenia. The modern mind is divided. Society is skitsoid. All of those things are coming together as I see it,. A sort of reaction to what appears to be the failure of the kind of modern product, the modern project after the horrors of the 20th century.
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