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Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness
Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness
Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness
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The anthropologist Gregory Bateson has been called a lost giant of twentieth-century thought. In the years following World War II, Bateson was among the group of mathematicians, engineers, and social scientists who laid the theoretical foundations of the information age. In Palo Alto in 1956, he introduced the double-bind theory of schizophrenia. By the sixties, he was in Hawaii studying dolphin communication. Bateson's discipline hopping made established experts wary, but he found an audience open to his ideas in a generation of rebellious youth. To a gathering of counterculturalists and revolutionaries in 1967 London, Bateson was the first to warn of a "greenhouse effect" that could lead to runaway climate change.

Blending intellectual biography with an ambitious reappraisal of the 1960s, Anthony Chaney uses Bateson's life and work to explore the idea that a postmodern ecological consciousness is the true legacy of the decade. Surrounded by voices calling for liberation of all kinds, Bateson spoke of limitation and dependence. But he also offered an affirming new picture of human beings and their place in the world—as ecologies knit together in a fabric of meaning that, said Bateson, "we might as well call Mind."

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Release dateAug 9, 2017
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Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness
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Anthony Chaney

Anthony Chaney teaches history and writing at the University of North Texas at Dallas.

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    a mind-boggling update of the origins of the major warfaring 20th Century thru the ongoing real-time binding bonding Batesonian mental communicational psychotic lunatic bi-polar schizophrenic worldwide Culture that we are inside of! See Dr N Luhmann on the difficulty of changing autopoietic social systems. Dr H Maturana and Dr F J Varela also on Autopoiesis challenges. Usually, we need to step outside of the bind to comment on it. Not commenting on living lies is the Amnesia Context too. Notice more.

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