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This book develops Gregory Bateson's ideas regarding "communication
about relationship" in animals and human beings, and even nations.
It bases itself on Bateson's theory of relational communication, as
he described it in the zoosemiotics of octopus, mammals, birds, and
human beings. This theory includes, for example, the roles of
metaphor, play, analog and digital communication,
metacommunication, and Laws of Form. It is organized around a
letter from Gregory Bateson to his fellow cybernetic thinker Warren
McCulloch at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In this letter
Bateson argued that what we would today call zoosemiotics,
including Bateson's own (previously unpublished) octopus research,
should be made a basis for understanding the relationship between
the two blocs of the Cold War. Accordingly the book shows how
Bateson understood interactive processes in the biosemiotics of
conflict and peacemaking, which are analyzed using examples from
recent animal studies, from primate studies, and from cultural
anthropology. The Missile Crisis itself is described in terms of
Bateson's critique of game theory which he felt should be modified
by an understanding of the zoosemiotics of relational
communication. The book also includes a previously unpublished
piece by Gregory Bateson on wolf behavior and metaphor/ abduction.
This book develops Gregory Bateson's ideas regarding "communication
about relationship" in animals and human beings, and even nations.
It bases itself on Bateson's theory of relational communication, as
he described it in the zoosemiotics of octopus, mammals, birds, and
human beings. This theory includes, for example, the roles of
metaphor, play, analog and digital communication,
metacommunication, and Laws of Form. It is organized around a
letter from Gregory Bateson to his fellow cybernetic thinker Warren
McCulloch at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In this letter
Bateson argued that what we would today call zoosemiotics,
including Bateson's own (previously unpublished) octopus research,
should be made a basis for understanding the relationship between
the two blocs of the Cold War. Accordingly the book shows how
Bateson understood interactive processes in the biosemiotics of
conflict and peacemaking, which are analyzed using examples from
recent animal studies, from primate studies, and from cultural
anthropology. The Missile Crisis itself is described in terms of
Bateson's critique of game theory which he felt should be modified
by an understanding of the zoosemiotics of relational
communication. The book also includes a previously unpublished
piece by Gregory Bateson on wolf behavior and metaphor/ abduction.
Cybernetics and human knowing: a journal of second-order
cybernetics, autopoieses and cyber-semiotics.A quarterly
international multi- and transdisciplinary journal devoted to the
new understandings of the self-organizing processes of information
in human knowing that have arisen through the cybernetics of
cybernetics, or second order cybernetics, its relation and
relevance to other interdisciplinary approaches such as C.S.
Pierce's semiotics.
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