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Alcoholism, Game Theory and Peace in the Middle East

Edit CounterPunch 19 Apr 2016
Gregory Bateson was a social scientist and anthropologist with an interest in systems and relationships. In 1971 he published a seminal work, “.” Bateson determined that alcoholic struggle for sobriety was part of an errant “Occidental stance.” He believed the success of the mutual aid group Alcoholics Anonymous was due to a change in epistemology, the alcoholic’s way of knowing and being in the world ... Bateson G....

Zoologists Should Not "Hog" Upcoming Royal Society Evolution Meeting

Edit Huffington Post 12 Mar 2016
SIR PAUL PATRICK GORDON BATESON. (photo, Cambridge University/courtesy PPG Bateson). With knighthood comes responsibility, and Sir Patrick Bateson takes the honor seriously ... Anthropologist Gregory Bateson, William's son, was, of course, also a distant relative ... Patrick Bateson ... Patrick Bateson ... Including form? Have you come any closer to understanding why it is that you look like your distant relatives - William and Gregory Bateson?....

Zoologists Should Not 'Hog' Upcoming Royal Society Evolution Meeting

Edit Huffington Post 12 Mar 2016
SIR PAUL PATRICK GORDON BATESON. (photo, Cambridge University/courtesy PPG Bateson). With knighthood comes responsibility, and Sir Patrick Bateson takes the honor seriously ... Anthropologist Gregory Bateson, William's son, was, of course, also a distant relative ... Patrick Bateson ... Patrick Bateson ... Including form? Have you come any closer to understanding why it is that you look like your distant relatives - William and Gregory Bateson?....

Using Fashion to Discuss our Cultural Schizophrenia

Edit Huffington Post 10 Mar 2016
While researching a title for the mental illness-themed Pyer Moss Fall/Winter runway presentation, I came across the work of cultural anthropologist Gregory Bateson. In the 1950's, Bateson coined the term "Double Bind"; which he found to be a common occurrence in the childhoods of his adult patients diagnosed as schizophrenic ... Bateson found that this ......

How does social change happen? (Greenpeace International)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Mar 2016
(Source. Greenpeace International). 'We live mythically and integrally'. - Marshall McLuhan. Changing the world remains a complex challenge, with no infallible formula for success ... The I Ching describes Taoist principles of following nature's patterns in one's pursuit of social influence ... Gandhi borrowed Quaker tactics in his campaign to liberate India from British colonization ... 'Yes,' I replied ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... Mind and Nature, Gregory Bateson, E.P....

Art and the complexity of history

Edit The Malta Independent 15 Feb 2016
According to categorical constructions of history, it would be nonsensical to consider the idea of the Baroque as being alive in the present ... As Schembri Bonaci writes, usurping the anthropological theory of Gregory Bateson, the Maltese context evinces a schismogenic state of being, meaning a state of perpetual ambiguity caused by the continuation of the old with the presence of the new ... ....

Champlin to review book for Friends of Hanley Library (University of Pittsburgh at Bradford)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Feb 2016
(Source. University of Pittsburgh at Bradford). Isabelle Champlin, a retired professor of archaeology, will review the award-winning novel 'Euphoria' by Lily King next week. The program will take place at 7 p.m. Feb ... Margaret Mead, her then-husband Reo Fortune, and her future husband Gregory Bateson ... (noodl....

A Vision of Peace for America

Edit Huffington Post 07 Dec 2015
America is at war. Here are the facts.. • Today in America, there is a mass shooting where four or more people are shot almost every day. Since January 1, 2014, there have been 1052 mass shootings, killing 1347, injuring 3817, and traumatizing countless others. • As of today, the total number of gun violence incidents in the U.S ... history ... today top $11 Billion a year ... This entails increasing what Gregory Bateson termed our systemic wisdom ... ....

Life Drawing by Robin Black; Euphoria by Lily King – love triangles that didn’t make the cut

Edit The Guardian 28 Sep 2015
It’s awards season again, but what of the literary gems that get left behind?. @msrachelcooke ... It was such an unexpectedly melancholy business ... It’s 1933 and Nell Stone, a Margaret Mead-ish character, is studying a tribe deep inside New Guinea with her macho anthropologist husband, Fen, and a more reticent British colleague, Andrew (this pair are inspired by two of Mead’s husbands, Reo Fortune and Gregory Bateson) ... ....

Between home and the world

Edit The Hindu 06 Aug 2015
(This is an excerpt from an interview writer Jayant Kaikini had with the late Yashwanth Chittal, nearly two decades ago. This interview has been published in Yashwanth Chittal’s Sahityada Sapthadhatugalu ... The interview perhaps had 11 questions, and the answers are numbered accordingly.). One ... When I read this, I jumped in joy ... Two ... There is a story in the growth of every living organism, says famous scientist Gregory Bateson ... Eight ... ....

​Big shop of horrors: What’s wrong with the five worst state-owned buildings

Edit The Business Journals 14 Jul 2015
When the state released a survey last week listing the state-owned buildings in the worst condition, many were surprised to learn the notorious Board of Equalization headquarters didn’t top the list – not even close. From leaky windows that haven’t been cleaned since the Bush administration to cracking walls and asbestos. Here are details on the worst state-owned buildings in Sacramento. 1 ... Now what?. Where ... 1964 ... Gregory Bateson Building ... ....

The Artful Marketer

Edit Huffington Post 27 Apr 2015
The arts and business hardly ever talk. They should. Business is tight. The arts are loose. Business is linear, extols the numeric, and is aimed at being well known ... Business and the arts live in two different worlds. Business and the arts need to get together ... The issue is not separate but equal ... Gregory Bateson, the great biologist and systems theorist, has said, "Logic is a very elegant tool, but logic alone won't quite do... 76-77) ... ....

How Do Systems Get Unstuck

Edit Big News Network 24 Apr 2015
The Bateson Institute is named after genetics pioneer William Bateson and his son, anthropologist and systems theorist Gregory Bateson. Gregory once famously remarked ... ....
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