Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson

His early program was boosted by the needs of Cold War governance and found further application in linguistics, psychotherapy, and child development study. Birdwhistell (1918-1994), the father of “kinesics.” Working first with Gregory Bateson and later the psychiatrist Albert Scheflen, he developed a set of standard procedures for the recording, storage, and symbolic transcription of interaction behavior. In America, the foremost agent of such research was the anthropologist Ray L. Upon scrutiny it was seen that stream became structure, that behavior was interaction and by interaction was meant the patterned exchange of verbal and nonverbal signals.

With their aid an investigator could both preserve and parse the streams of behavior of proximate persons. Its principal tools were the 16mm camera and the analytic or multispeed projector. The “natural history” method in behavioral science flourished between 19. Dans la deuxième partie, je fais une lecture attentive de Humpty Dumpty (le sixième chapitre de Through the Looking Glass, de Lewis Carroll) à la lumière de la schizoanalyse de Deleuze et Guattari. Je souligne surtout la comparaison établie par les philosophes français avec celle de Gregory Bateson. Résumé Dans la première partie de cet article, je prends l'idée de schizophrénie selon ce que je considère comme étant une explication scandaleuse – celle donnée par Gilles Deleuze et Felix Guattari dans les livres l'Anti Oedipus et Milles Plateaux. The second part of the essay concerns a close reading of Humpty Dumpty (the sixth chapter of Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll) in the light of Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis. I particularly stress the comparison made by the French philosophers with that of Gregory Bateson.

I consider schizophrenia, in the first part of this essay, in the light of what I consider to be a scandalous explanation given by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in their books Anti Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaux.

Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson