k cover (i).qxd 25/09/2007 08:44 Page 1 ISSN 0368-492X Volume 36 Number 7/8 2007 Kybernetes The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciences The beginning of a new epistemology: in memoriam, Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) Guest Editors: Monika Silvia Broecker and Georg Ivanovas Selected as the official journal of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics www.emeraldinsight.com Kybernetes ISSN 0368-492X Volume 36 The International Journal of Systems, Cybernetics Number 7/8 2007 and Management Science The beginning of a new epistemology: in memoriam, Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) Guest Editors Monika Silvia Broecker and Georg Ivanovas Access this journal online _________________________ 844 CONTENTS Editorial advisory board __________________________ 845 Preface __________________________________________ 846 GUEST EDITORIAL Still not paradigmatic Georg Ivanovas ________________________________________________ 847 Gregory Bateson__________________________________ 852 Adaptation, acclimation, addiction, remedy, etc. Gregory Bateson (Edited by Nora Bateson)__________________________ 855 Bateson’s cybernetics: the basis of MRI brief therapy: prologue Wendel A. Ray ________________________________________________ 859 The influence of Gregory Bateson: legacy or vestige? Frank N. Thomas, Rebekah A. Waits and Gail L. Hartsfield ____________ 871 Batesonian epistemology, Bushman n/om-kxaosi, and rock art Bradford Keeney_______________________________________________ 884 Access this journal electronically The current and past volumes of this journal are available at: www.emeraldinsight.com/0368-492X.htm You can also search more than 150 additional Emerald journals in Emerald Fulltext (www.emeraldinsight.com/ft) See page following contents for full details of what your access includes. Toward Batesonian sociocybernetics: from Naven CONTENTS to the mind beyond the skin continued Phillip Guddemi________________________________________________ 905 Gregory Bateson in contemporary cross-cultural systemic psychotherapy Inga-Britt Krause ______________________________________________ 915 Caught in the middle of a double-bind: the application of non-ordinary logic to therapy Giorgio Nardone and Claudette Portelli _____________________________ 926 Practicising psychotherapy employing Gregory Bateson’s epistemological models Giovanni Madonna _____________________________________________ 932 Towards aesthetic seduction using emotional engagement and stories Andy Bilson and David Thorpe ___________________________________ 936 Still disturbing Martin Rudolph________________________________________________ 946 Struggling for a Russian Bateson Dmitry Fedotov ________________________________________________ 949 Batesonian analysis of value hierarchies and the transformation of Russia Pavel Luksha and Anatoly Tkachev ________________________________ 956 Human robustness and conscious purpose in contemporary medicine Georg Ivanovas, Vlassis Tomaras, Vasiliki Papadioti and Nikolaos Paritsis _______________________________________________ 972 Reflections on learning and addiction: porpoises and palm trees Gregory Bateson (Edited by Nora Bateson)__________________________ 985 “The logical categories of learning and communication”: reconsidered from a polycontextural point of view: learning in machines and living systems Eberhard von Goldammer and Joachim Paul ________________________ 1000 Looking for “scientific” social science: the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics in Bateson’s itinerary Leone Montagnini______________________________________________ 1012 The two beginnings of communication theory Wolfram Lutterer ______________________________________________ 1022 Legacy: lessons from the Bateson team meetings CONTENTS Wendel A. Ray and Molly R. Govener ______________________________ 1026 continued Language games and (hi)stories: Wittgenstein, Bateson and Schapp on the role of language in therapy Hans Rudi Fischer _____________________________________________ 1037 Second thoughts on Gregory Bateson and Alfred Korzybski Hans Gu¨ nter Holl ______________________________________________ 1047 Primary natural relationship: Bateson, Rosen, and the Vedas John J. Kineman and K. Anil Kumar ______________________________ 1055 Toward a science of metapatterns: building upon Bateson’s foundation Tyler Volk, Jeffrey W. Bloom and John Richards _____________________ 1070 Choreography: a pattern language Michael Klien _________________________________________________ 1081 How G. Bateson informs dogs Rolf Todesco __________________________________________________ 1089 Maps of maps Michael Grossmann ____________________________________________ 1098 Metalogue: “less than one and more than two: developing a partiality for whole(some)ness” Vincent Kenny and Laura Scarino ________________________________ 1100 How to understand giants? Lucas Marian Pawlik ___________________________________________ 1106 Fictional communication: developing Gregory Bateson’s “Theory of Play and Fantasy” Christine Angela Knoop _________________________________________ 1113 Bateson and the Arts Stephen Nachmanovitch _________________________________________ 1122 What would Bateson’s work look like today? 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