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There is, in fact, almost no formal theory dealing with analogue communication and, in particular, no equivalent of Information Theory or Logical Type Theory. This gap in formal knowledge is inconvenient when we leave the rarefied world of logic and mathematics and come face to face with the phenomena of natural history. In the natural world, communication is rarely either purely digital or purely analog. Often discrete digital pips are combined together to make analog pictures as in the printer’s halftone block; and sometimes, as in the matter of context markers, there is a continuous gradation from the ostensive through the iconic to the purely digital. At the digital end of this scale all the theorems of information theory have their full force, but at the ostensive and analog end they are meaningless.[1] — Gregory Bateson
"Simplified checklist" from Archer's handwritten notes entitled "Lecture for London College of Furniture 25 Feb 1965 Systematic method 1 -Introduction" from L Bruce Archer Archives, RCA, London: box 2.1.2. The brief precedes and lies outside the design cycle.
The Time of the Feminine - A Global Sisterhood Podcast: Riane Eisler: From Domination to Partnership
"The Nature of Cybernetics There are many definitions of cybernetics [29], with illustration in Principia Cybernetica Web: the 18th century French physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère thought that there was a need for a science of control that could be used on governments; some two centuries later, in the 1940s, for Norbert Wiener it is the science of communication and control in the animal and the machine; Warren McCulloch thought it to be an experimental epistemology concerned with c...
(A Swedish) Encounter with Gregory Bateson
This article examines how a classroom art lesson can reproduce a Cartesian pattern of thinking where creativity is represented as an autonomous act and the aesthetic is seen as a property of an art object - which also is considered to have an autonomous existence. The ideas of Gregory Bateson, as well as insights from the field of semiotics, are used to illuminate how the individual (as artist) is part of a larger ecology of relationships and how these relationships serve as the information pathways essential to the survival of the larger system. The recent work of Ellen Dissanayake is used to clarify how art, as "making special," can involve giving everyday relationships (sign systems that communicate) an aesthetic dimension - which is a view of art that corresponds more closely to the ideas of Bateson and to an understanding of the aesthetic dimensions of the sign systems that we use to communicate about relationships.
However, some aspects of Gestalt Practice are derived from the theory of Gestalt Therapy. Gestalt Practice incorporates some typical Gestalt awareness experiments borrowed from the Gestalt therapy model, along with eclectic techniques of meditation, physical exercise, environmentalism, contemplation, and spiritual practice.[14]
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