Bateson's Alphabet
Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) began his career as an anthropologist in the 1930s, yet Bateson has also been recognized as an important early practitioner of ethnographic filmmaking, a key figure in the early development of cybernetics, and a point of reference for environmental artists and activists....
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| description | Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) began his career as an anthropologist in the 1930s, yet Bateson has also been recognized as an important early practitioner of ethnographic filmmaking, a key figure in the early development of cybernetics, and a point of reference for environmental artists and activists. In fact, Bateson was an important environmental thinker who was sounding the alarm about global warming and runaway patterns of consumption fifty years ago. His research connected the symptoms of ecological crisis to deeply rooted systems of Western thought. Bateson's Alphabet draws on archival sources—Bateson's public presentations, classroom seminars, and recorded memos—to provide an engaging and accessible, online, hyperlinked interface with Bateson's system of ecological thought. Bateson's Alphabet is composed of short, alphabetized essays that put Bateson in conversation with current scholarship in the environmental humanities and ground his ideas in a concrete example from a media text. The hyperlinked text allows readers to take multiple paths through the text. Whichever path is chosen, each step allows for a rich, multimodal encounter with Bateson's ideas through media analysis and images from the films under discussion. The resulting resource offers a new way to experience Bateson's ecology of mind and fosters new interdisciplinary connections within the environmental humanities. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1606842025-05-29T05:02:12Z Bateson's Alphabet Smith, Jacob Media Studies Cinema Studies Cultural Anthropology American Studies Social Anthropology thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATN Internet and digital media: arts and performance Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) began his career as an anthropologist in the 1930s, yet Bateson has also been recognized as an important early practitioner of ethnographic filmmaking, a key figure in the early development of cybernetics, and a point of reference for environmental artists and activists. In fact, Bateson was an important environmental thinker who was sounding the alarm about global warming and runaway patterns of consumption fifty years ago. His research connected the symptoms of ecological crisis to deeply rooted systems of Western thought. Bateson's Alphabet draws on archival sources—Bateson's public presentations, classroom seminars, and recorded memos—to provide an engaging and accessible, online, hyperlinked interface with Bateson's system of ecological thought. Bateson's Alphabet is composed of short, alphabetized essays that put Bateson in conversation with current scholarship in the environmental humanities and ground his ideas in a concrete example from a media text. The hyperlinked text allows readers to take multiple paths through the text. Whichever path is chosen, each step allows for a rich, multimodal encounter with Bateson's ideas through media analysis and images from the films under discussion. The resulting resource offers a new way to experience Bateson's ecology of mind and fosters new interdisciplinary connections within the environmental humanities. 2025-05-29T05:02:11Z 2025-05-29T05:02:11Z 2025-05-28T10:27:06Z 2024 book ONIX_20250528T122529_9780472904525_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102982 9780472904525 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160684 eng open access University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12805341 10.3998/mpub.12805341 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472904525 University of Michigan Press 262 Ann Arbor open access |
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