“Second hypothesis: The analogy or analogical language by or as a language of relations. It’s Bateson’s hypothesis, who is also a very interesting author. The analogical language would be a language of relations in opposition to what? In opposition to the conventional language: the language of codes. What would be that? That would be, says Bateson ―who sticks to very simple things to try to make us understand something very curious―, a language of states of things. Continue reading
Category Archives: Bateson
Bateson [mp3]

On epistemology – 42:22
Orders of change – 45:10
Consciousness and psychopathology – 1.31:40

The Experience of Double Bind
Bateson’s systemico-formal approach permits to understand addiction as an action that makes itself recurrent by a logic manifested in the contradictory linkages produced by the habit. These linkages express a formal contradiction that means an addictive loop. Continue reading
Addictive Loop
Bateson’s approach permits to understand that the addictive action implicates a logical contradiction given between the premises of the habit and the volitional action exerted by the human biological system. Continue reading
Communicative Interferences & The Generic Production of ‘Transcontextual Syndromes’
With respect to the formal problems that human biological systems experiment according to their adaptive processes, Bateson distinguishes primarily the problem of ‘reification’. Continue reading
Retweeting Bateson [by Francesco Masci]
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The Earth: An Interplanetary Airstation
The characteristics of the environmental system in which biological systems are inserted are mental characteristics: this means that they are immanent to the environmental system in its totality. Biological systems are part of the entire environmental system they experiment, part of the content of that system. Continue reading
The Cybernetics of Self: a logico-formal approach of experience
Gregory Bateson’s anthropology of communication provides a perspective of the experience from a systemic and formal approach. This approach is underlined mainly by the theory of deutero-learning and the importance of this theory is based on what Bateson tended to call ‘double-bind’. Continue reading
[Conceptually 'Plushed']: Grover’s intensive & differenciated drama
Perhaps a little belated, but speaking of affective monsters, plushie creatures and conceptual engendering, I just couldn’t leave the chance to expose what may be the schizo-case of our dearest uncle Grover
, who is specially referenced in my ‘Gilulz Delulz’ Letter to a Harsh Zizek [here], and who might be incarnating a good example of how the erraticness of the terms that I have referred in a previous post [here], can lead to a joyful affect that would also mean a conceptual and didactic implication. As it is suggested in such a post, this erraticness would be leaded by an active and ‘more correct’ epistemological orientation towards life that would bring experience to an open understanding of the world. As the affective monster that he is, we can consider that furry Grover performs and incarnates this implication in each one of his presentations, because after all, he is the plush monster who has taught us the most elemental concepts to understand the very own spatio-temporal coordinates of the world
―in our basic experience and learning of it― ie, the near and far [here], the heavy and light [here], the long and short [here], the over, under, around and through [here], even the small and big [here]
, among other performativities that would even singularize him as a conceptual character [here and here], and that would deterritorialize him into the moon or into the desert with his own bed as territory [here]. Continue reading

