Bateson’s analogical language [according to Deleuze]

“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

Bateson [mp3]


On epistemology – 42:22


Orders of change – 45:10


Consciousness and psychopathology – 1.31:40


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