Gregory Bateson on relational communication from octopuses to nations /: from octopuses to nations. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Phillip Guddemi.
• Other Names: Guddemi, Phillip
• Contents: Intro -- Prologue: Cybernetics, Bateson, and the Missile Crisis -- Gregory Bateson and Octopus -- Brief Outline of the Book -- Letter from Gregory Bateson to Warren McCulloch, MC 1039-10a, October 25, 1962 -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Bateson, Cybernetics, and Nonverbal Communication -- 1.1 History of Bateson's Interest -- 1.2 Humor and Humans - A Non-Digression into the Carrier Wave -- 1.3 Nonverbal Nations -- Chapter 2: Bateson, Relationship, and the Biologists -- 2.1 The Relational Abstract -- 2.2 Critique of Conventional Biological and Scientific Ideas 2.3 The Question of Instinct -- 2.4 The Carrier Wave -- Chapter 3: Relationship and Metaphor: A Bird Courtship Interlude -- 3.1 Courtship Feeding as Abductive Metaphor -- Chapter 4: Among Wolves and Logicians, by Gregory Bateson -- Chapter 5: Human-Animal Interactions and the "Carrier Wave" -- 5.1 Cetaceans, Communication, and Music -- Chapter 6: Analog and Digital Communication, and Similar Contrasts -- 6.1 Analog and Digital -- 6.2 Primary Process -- 6.3 Digital Number and Analog Quantity -- 6.4 The Mu-Function -- 6.5 The "Ballading" of the Jackdaws 6.6 The Absence of a "Not" in Analog Communication -- 6.7 Left and Right Hemispheres -- Chapter 7: G. Spencer Brown on the Paradoxes of "Not" - And Gregory Bateson on the Richness of Analog Communication -- 7.1 Further Spencer Brown on the Peculiarities of the "Not" Message -- 7.2 Spencer Brownian Communion and the "Restricted Code" -- 7.2.1 The Communicational Richness of (Human) Interaction: A Partial Digression -- 7.3 The Cybernetics of Human Talk: Interaction Analysis, 2008 -- 7.4 The Cybernetics of Human Talk: The Natural History of an Interview, 1955-1971 7.5 Transmutation of Freudian Concepts into Communication Theory -- 7.6 Kinesic Speculations -- 7.7 Lack of Translatability -- Chapter 8: The Slash Mark: Gregory Bateson's Cybernetic Semiotic -- 8.1 The Slash Mark of Information -- 8.1.1 Gregory Bateson's Cybernetic Semiotic -- 8.1.2 Implications for the Sparring Octopuses or Nations -- Chapter 9: Metacommunication and Its Contents -- 9.1 Mood Signs, Signals, and Play -- 9.1.1 Metacommunication and Its Misunderstandings in Play -- 9.2 "Going By Opposites" in Behavioral Encounters -- 9.3 Epideictic, Epi-gamic, and Epi-eristic Chapter 10: Complementary and Symmetrical Versions of Conflict -- 10.1 Some Thinking About Contexts -- 10.2 Symmetrical and Complementary -- 10.3 Symmetry and Complementarity in Animal and Human Conflict -- 10.4 A Human Conflict Example - "Ritualized" Symmetrical Conflict among the Dani of West Papua -- 10.5 Recent Research in Animal Conflict -- 10.6 Conflict and Communication Among Octopus - Recent Research -- Chapter 11: Intention Movements and Peacemaking Ceremonies -- 11.1 Instinct and Intention Movements -- 11.2 Peacemaking in Non-Human Primates
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (197 p.)
• Subjects: 302.2; Semiotics; Nonverbal communication; Biology -- Semiotics; Communication -- Psychological aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030521011
• Related ISBNs: 303052101X; 3030521001; 9783030521004
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 3, 2020).
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