The words that follow serve also as a tribute in memoriam to Deleuze. They come from a site whose intimacy warns the joy of a ‘birding’ that precedes the jump off to the void. We know nothing about them, we do not know who is its author. But certainly they open us to a ontological valuation that makes the deleuzian line of flight resonate, right on the figure of who jumps to the conquest of thought, of who is thrown into his own event:
“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
Orders of change – 45:10
Consciousness and psychopathology – 1.31:40
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
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
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
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
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
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