
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 Bind in Schizophrenia
Macy conferences on cybernetics were series that began right after World War II and go through the early 50s. The significant figures included John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener. They are really trying to hash out the ideas of information theory, communication theory. And part of this becomes cybernetics, which is exploring the interface between living systems and mechanical systems governed by information.
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