Lynn Hoffman in conversation with Christopher Kinman…

Nora Bateson’s film about her father, Gregory Bateson, is highlighted in the Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marilyn-wedge-phd/an-ecology-of-mind-nora-bateson_b_1003568.html

An Ecology of Mind – A Daughter’s Portrait of Gregory Bateson An Ecology of Mind is a film portrait of Gregory Bateson, celebrated anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist, systems theorist, and filmmaker, produced and directed by his daughter, Nora Bateson. Bateson’s thinking will make a difference.

A blog I discovered by Andrew Parkinson, a learning consultant and visual artist.  He explores the connection between art and systems thinking.  And, like many of us, he clearly is appreciative of Gregory Bateson’s thinking. patterns that connect http://patternsthatconnext.wordpress.com/

Created by his daughter, Nora Bateson.  This piece is a trailer for a longer film that will be released in various cities later this year. This current film is found on Facebook videos. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=468851200859&oid=155784421112208&comments To keep updated about the film join the facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/An-Ecology-of-Mind-The-Gregory-Bateson-Documentary/155784421112208

I have posted this audio/visual presentation before on the Rhizome Network, but I was watching it recently and made a decision to post it again.  I realize how important Bateson’s ideas are to my own life and work and wanted to share this creation once more. Google Movies YouTube

Big thanks to Pietro Barbetta for this treasure I found on his website.

There are two rhizome-maps below.  One map is a multi-paged slide show (click on the right side of the page to move forward and the left side to move backward, or you can navigate in the box situated below the map).  The other rhizome-map is a single page with hyper-links for further online connections. Lynn [...]

http://www.oikos.org/batdual.htm A conference addressing the pathology of Cartesian mind/body dualism was held at the Wheelwright Center in Marin County, California, July 27th to 30th, 1976. Participants were Gregory Bateson, Francisco Varela, Heinz Von Foerster, Richard Baker-roshi, Ramon Margalef, Gordon Pask, Alan Kay, Terry Winograd, Mary Catherine Bateson, Steve Baer, Stewart Brand, Robert Edgar, and Carol [...]

The following is a powerpoint presentation looking at the thinking of Gregory Bateson. It is in Portuguese. The document is embedded below. Ppt Gregory Bateson