Links
Conceptual & Thematic
(some links are duplicated where appropriate for the categories)
People and their Ideas
- Bateson Idea Group (BIG) — a Facebook Group
- Gregory Bateson — from the New World Encyclopedia (online)
- Towards an Ecology of Mind — emphasis on Gregory Bateson, Ernst von Glasersfeld, George Kelly, Ronnie (R. D.) Laing, Humberto Maturana
- Stanislov Grof — psychiatrist, founder of the International Transpersonal Association
- Homage to Gregory Bateson — by Fritjof Capra
- Where the Sea Meets the Land: Remembering Gregory Bateson — by Marilyn Price-Mitchell (a PDF download)
- Humberto Maturana — developed conceptual framework of autopoiesis
- Klaus Krippendorf
- Judith Lombardi
- Paul Pangaro
Environment and Ecology
- Center for Humans and Nature
- The Solutions Journal — a transdisciplinary journal "for a sustainable and desirable future"
- Environment News Service
- Rex Weyler and His Ecolog
- Deep Green — Rex Weyler's monthly column for Greenpeace
- The Ecologist
- http://www.ecoearth.info/ EcoEarth.Info — Environmental Portal and Search Engine
- Ecology Global Network
- Conservation Magazine
- Peak Generation
- Looking beyond energy security to food supply — by Matthew Wild
- http://www.ecology.com/ Ecology Global Network — News and Information for Planet Earth
- Ecological Society of America
- Ecology Center — Environment, Community, Justice — "The ECOLOGY CENTER provides the public with reliable information, tools, hands-on training, referrals, strategies, infrastructure, and models for sustainable living. Our programs enable people to adopt practices that are environmentally and socially responsible."
- The Donella Meadows Institute (formerly The Sustainability Institute)
- Environment--Ecology — an extensive site dealing with ecology and sustainability (also at: Environment)
- Roger Wendell's Deep Ecology page
- The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition
- The Club of Rome — "The Club of Rome members share a common concern for the future of humanity and the planet."
- The Oil Age — MIT's Limits to Growth Update
- Global Footprint Network — ecological footprint and sustainability
- Ecobuddhism
- World Population:
- World Population Counter — at Worldometer.Info
- World Data — real time meters of various information at Worldometer.Info
- World Population — with historic and future projections at Ibiblio.Org
- U.S. and World Population Clocks — from the U.S. Census Bureau
- World Population Counter — at Worldometer.Info
Natural Resources
Poverty and Hunger
Environmental, Ecological, and Social Action Groups
- Greenpeace USA — with links to Greenpeace International
- EarthFirst — an international ecology action group
- Deep Green Resistance
- The Orangutan Project — palm oil or orangutans? Extensive habitat destruction and potential extinction of orangutans…
- Sea Shepherd — a radical off-shoot of Greenpeace (as seen on The Animal Channel's "Whale Wars")
- 350.Org — a Global Movement to Solve the Climate Crisis
- Global Footprint Network
General
- Gregory Bateson's Spirited Culture of Refusal — by Peter Harries-Jones
- Learning from Gregory Bateson. Reflections on the Role of Emotions and Humour in Scientific Knowledge and Everyday Life — by Marianella Sclavi
- Tree of Knowledge — by Ross Mays — An extensive, but accessible online book about "Finding Unity in Human Knowledge by Exploring the History of the Universe."
- Syntony Quest — ways of embodying social and environmental integrity
Mind & Ecology of Mind
- An Ecology of Mind — site based on the film by Nora Bateson
- Towards an Ecology of Mind — emphasis on Gregory Bateson, Ernst von Glasersfeld, George Kelly, Ronnie (R. D.) Laing, Humberto Maturana
- Evolving an Integral Ecology of Mind — paper by Chris Lucas, CALResCo Group, Manchester, UK
- Wikipedia article on "Ecology of Mind"
- Buddhist Steps to An Ecology of Mind — by William S. Waldron, Middlebury College
- A Re-Introduction to Ecology of Mind — article by Elise Mulder in Earthzine
- "Gregory Bateson's Theory of Mind: Practical Applications to Pedagogy" — article by Lawrence S. Bale
Perception
- Perception and Thought — from Mind Papers: A Bibliography of the Philosophy of Mind and the Science of Consciousness
- What affects our pereceptions? — a short, but thought-provoking blog entry at the Thinking About Philosophy Blog (by a young "amateur blogger")
Relationships
- Living Systems: Gregory Bateson's approach to culture — by Richard Currie Smith
- "Bateson’s Method: Double Description. What is it? How does it work? What do we learn?" — by Julie Hui, Tyrone Cashman, Terrence Deacon
- Contexts Shape Relationships — by John Hawks
- Learning Is Key to Bridging the Intergenerational Gap — Interview with Mary Catherine Bateson
- The Complementary Nature — an examination of binaries (fundamental relational pairings) by J. A. Scott Kelso and David A. Engstrøm (from their book with the same name)
- Family Systems Therapy — "An Ecology of Mind" by Marilyn Wedge
Cybernetics, Feedback Loops, & Recursiveness
- American Society for Cybernetics
- "Gregory Bateson, Cybernetics, and the Social/Behavioral Sciences" — article by Lawrence S. Bale — also published in Cybernetics and Human Knowing, 3(1), 27-45; (1995).
- Chapter 3 - Gregory Bateson’s Cybernetic Framework — from: Mathur, P. (2003). Theorizing "ecological communication." Dissertation, Department of Science and Technological Studies, University of Vermont (etd-08112003-175921).
- Bateson and Cybernetics — by Mark Oehlert
- "From Versailles to Cybernetics" by Gregory Bateson — on The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities website
- Gregory Bateson, Critical Cybernetics and Ecological Aesthetics of Dwelling — by Jon Goodbun — full article: page 35-48 in Field Journal
- Language Development Patterns — by Deb Roy — a TED talk video (embedded on this site)
- On Translatability — by Wolfgang Iser — a cybernetic and recursive view of culture.
- Feedback Loops — by Penny Tompkins & James Lawley
- Getting Started with Systems — by Bruno (Bruce) Clarke
Epistemology - How We Know and Construct Knowledge
- Gregory Bateson: Epistemology, Language, Play and the Double Bind — by Edmond Wright
- Gregory Bateson on Epistemology — audio stream and download of a 42-minute talk by Gregory Bateson
- Revisiting Angels Fear: Recursion, Ecology and Aesthetics — Part 1 — by Peter Harries-Jones
- Revisiting Angels Fear: Recursion, Ecology and Aesthetics — Part 2 — by Peter Harries-Jones
Difference
- Gregory Bateson's Social and Cultural Anthropology — by William Coyle
Double Bind
- Gregory Bateson: Epistemology, Language, Play and the Double Bind — by Edmond Wright
- Double Bind and Paradoxical Communication — Short narrative and images by Nicola Hay
- The Schizogenic Double Bind - Gregory Bateson — at NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- Bateson’s Double Bind, Constraints on Human-Environment Intrxnz, and Ener-geets™ — Semeiotica: Evolutionary Design Ecology
Patterns & Metapatterns
- Metapatterns: The Pattern Underground
- Metapatterns — by Gabriele Rico — from Writing the Natural Way
- Rejuvenating Metapatterns — by Andy Ilachinsky — from The Tao of Photography
- Metapatterns Primer — Pieter Wisse — Metapatterns in computer science
- Unconscious Apprehension of Metapatterns Expressed Consciously Through Musical Form — by Anthony J. Palmer (Boston University) — in Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, 10(1); 2009.
Changeability
- The Nature of Flexibility — from Veryard Projects (a business consultancy)
Beauty & Aesthetics
- Gregory Bateson, Critical Cybernetics and Ecological Aesthetics of Dwelling — by Jon Goodbun — full article: page 35-48 in Field Journal
- Dance as a Metaphor for Thought — Part 1 — by Michael Klien & Steve Valk
- Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change — Part 2 — by Michael Klien & Steve Valk
- Social Dreaming / Social Choreography — Part 3 — Michael Klien & Steve Valk
- Super Brain — A TED talk by Daniel Tammet, an autistic savante — He explores his aesthetic perception in this intriguing presentation.
Systems & Systems Thinking
- Living Systems: Gregory Bateson's approach to culture — by Richard Currie Smith
- Systems Theory — including "Comparison of Bateson and Polanyi on Systems Theory" and "Organizations and the Systems Concept" at the Sustainable Leadership website
- Bertalafnfy's General Systems Theory — by Gregory Mitchell (on the Trans4Mind website).
Organizations
Other Related Disciplinary Fields & Journals
Transdisciplinary
- The Solutions Journal — a transdisciplinary journal addressing ecological, social, and economic issues "for a sustainable and desirable future"
Anthropology
Architecture
Dance
- Choreograph — "an online journal growing a community of knowledge about how we recognise, cultivate and negotiate a state of dance in human and other systems."
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