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Upside-Down Gods : Gregory Bateson's World of Difference / Peter Harries-Jones.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Meaning SystemsPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823270354
  • 9780823270378
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  • 301.092 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Brief Biographical Chronology of Gregory Bateson -- Introduction -- Part I: The Enigma of Context -- 1. Culture -- 2. A Science of Decency -- 3. Cybernetic Loops -- 4. Why We See in Outlines -- 5. The Bonds That Bind -- Interlude: From Cultural Structures to Structure in Ecology -- Part II: Nature’s Balance -- 6. Pattern and Process -- 7. A Postgenomic View -- 8. Toward the Semiosphere -- 9. Ecological Aesthetics as Metapattern -- Appendix. A Context Lexicon -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This intellectual biography covers the trajectory of Bateson’s career, from his anthropological work in Bali alongside his wife, Margaret Mead, to his contributions to family therapy in the United States, and to studies of recursion as a feature of communication patterns in both the human and in the animal world. Layers of feedback with their many differing contexts, highlight the presence of meaning in social relations in contrast to that absence of meaning, purposefully proposed, within information theory. Throughout the human and in the animal world, recursion of feedback accounts for grasp of patterns, their difference, and with ability to communicate, enable transduction of perceptions of difference.Bateson’s insistence on feedback and communication re-frames many aspects of culture, psychology, biology, and evolution. His legacy is recognized as an important precursor to the formation of a new science called Biosemiotics.Harries-Jones argues that Bateson turns conventional causality upside down through showing how humanity’s perceptions, as with perceptions of all sentient beings, are anticipative. All sentient beings abduct from recursive patterns, rather than relying on linear evidence gathered about time/space movements of objects. Thus circular pattering provides clearer perceptions of the difference between sustainable creativity and current biocide, between our appreciation of nature’s aesthetics and time/space ‘games of power’ which underlie so many social and biological theories.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Brief Biographical Chronology of Gregory Bateson -- Introduction -- Part I: The Enigma of Context -- 1. Culture -- 2. A Science of Decency -- 3. Cybernetic Loops -- 4. Why We See in Outlines -- 5. The Bonds That Bind -- Interlude: From Cultural Structures to Structure in Ecology -- Part II: Nature’s Balance -- 6. Pattern and Process -- 7. A Postgenomic View -- 8. Toward the Semiosphere -- 9. Ecological Aesthetics as Metapattern -- Appendix. A Context Lexicon -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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This intellectual biography covers the trajectory of Bateson’s career, from his anthropological work in Bali alongside his wife, Margaret Mead, to his contributions to family therapy in the United States, and to studies of recursion as a feature of communication patterns in both the human and in the animal world. Layers of feedback with their many differing contexts, highlight the presence of meaning in social relations in contrast to that absence of meaning, purposefully proposed, within information theory. Throughout the human and in the animal world, recursion of feedback accounts for grasp of patterns, their difference, and with ability to communicate, enable transduction of perceptions of difference.Bateson’s insistence on feedback and communication re-frames many aspects of culture, psychology, biology, and evolution. His legacy is recognized as an important precursor to the formation of a new science called Biosemiotics.Harries-Jones argues that Bateson turns conventional causality upside down through showing how humanity’s perceptions, as with perceptions of all sentient beings, are anticipative. All sentient beings abduct from recursive patterns, rather than relying on linear evidence gathered about time/space movements of objects. Thus circular pattering provides clearer perceptions of the difference between sustainable creativity and current biocide, between our appreciation of nature’s aesthetics and time/space ‘games of power’ which underlie so many social and biological theories.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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