Metafory w komunikacji osób chorych na schizofrenię: stanowisko Gregory’ego Batesona

W pracy opisano przyczynę braku rozumienia wypowiedzi metaforycznych przez osoby chore na schizofrenię. Referat opiera się głównie na analizie komunikacji między chorymi a ich bliskimi przedstawionej w książce Grego-ry’ego Batesona Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Omówiono w nim wpływ tych relacji na umiejętność rozumienia metafor przez osoby chore na schizofrenię. Opisano również, w jaki sposób wypowiedzi metaforyczne są wykorzystywanie przez chorych w codziennym życiu.

Metafory w komunikacji osób chorych na schizofrenię: stanowisko Gregory’ego Batesona

W pracy opisano przyczynę braku rozumienia wypowiedzi metaforycznych przez osoby chore na schizofrenię. Referat opiera się głównie na analizie komunikacji między chorymi a ich bliskimi przedstawionej w książce Grego-ry’ego Batesona Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Omówiono w nim wpływ tych relacji na umiejętność rozumienia metafor przez osoby chore na schizofrenię. Opisano również, w jaki sposób wypowiedzi metaforyczne są wykorzystywanie przez chorych w codziennym życiu.

Contextualizing Sustainable Development Metric Standards: Imagining New Entrepreneurial Possibilities

Imagination is more important than knowledge, but if intellect does not provide the needed logical structures, capacities for envisioning new possibilities are overly constrained. The sustainability problems we face today cannot be solved with the same kind of thinking that created them, but clarity on what counts as a new kind of thinking is sorely lacking. This article proposes methodical, model-based ways of heeding Bateson’s warning about the negative consequences for the ecology of mind that follow from ignoring the contexts of relationships. Informed by S. L. Star’s sense of boundary objects, a sequence of increasingly complex logical types distinguishes and interconnects qualitatively different kinds of thinking in ways that liberate imaginative new possibilities for life. The economy of thought instantiated at each level of complexity is only as meaningful, useful, beautiful, ethical, and efficient as the standards informing local adaptive improvisations. Standards mediating the general and specific, global and local, universally transcendent and embodied particulars enable meaningful negotiations, agreements, and communications. Attending to the differences between levels of discourse sets up new possibilities for creative and imaginative entrepreneurial approaches to viable, feasible, and desirable goals for measuring and managing sustainable development.

Contextualizing Sustainable Development Metric Standards: Imagining New Entrepreneurial Possibilities

Imagination is more important than knowledge, but if intellect does not provide the needed logical structures, capacities for envisioning new possibilities are overly constrained. The sustainability problems we face today cannot be solved with the same kind of thinking that created them, but clarity on what counts as a new kind of thinking is sorely lacking. This article proposes methodical, model-based ways of heeding Bateson's warning about the negative consequences for the ecology of mind that follow from ignoring the contexts of relationships. Informed by S. L. Star's sense of boundary objects, a sequence of increasingly complex logical types distinguishes and interconnects qualitatively different kinds of thinking in ways that liberate imaginative new possibilities for life. The economy of thought instantiated at each level of complexity is only as meaningful, useful, beautiful, ethical, and efficient as the standards informing local adaptive improvisations. Standards mediating the general and specific, global and local, universally transcendent and embodied particulars enable meaningful negotiations, agreements, and communications. Attending to the differences between levels of discourse sets up new possibilities for creative and imaginative entrepreneurial approaches to viable, feasible, and desirable goals for measuring and managing sustainable development.

Lines of Interpretation in Fields of Perception and Remembrance : The Multiscreen Array as Essay

Referring to artworks such as Doug Aitken’s Eraser, Chantal Akerman’s gallery-version of From the East, Kogonada’s split-screen essays, and my own installation entitled Street X-Rays, this chapter analyses the insights that can be garnered from spatialized, multistranded exposition, as distinct from the linear disquisition afforded by the conventional film essay. To grasp the complexity of the affects and ‘messages’ generated by the installation works, the chapter draws on ‘ecology of mind’ principles, as best represented by the writing of Gregory Bateson and Vannevar Bush.

Asian Elephant Futures: A Causal Layered Analysis with Gregory Bateson in Mind

Human population growth and dwindling fragmented natural habitats for elephants in Asia are leading to increasing conflict between humans and wild elephants. Sohail Inayatullah’s Causal layered analysis (CLA) is applied to understand the human–elephant conflict (HEC) situation. Gregory Bateson’s “ecology of mind” (EoM; epistemology, recurrence, abduction, and metaphor) is also employed to focus on possible implications of metaphor, epistemology, and social–psychological misalignments. The article aims to inform multidisciplinary practitioners on the relevance of applying both CLA and EoM to social–ecological issues in the twenty-first century. CLA and EoM are compatible and complementary multilayered approaches which, as metaphorical approaches, share mixed entailments. Bateson’s “double bind” theory is applied within CLA to explore the implications of possible Asian elephant extinction within the Anthropocene in respect to Indian (Hindu and Buddhist) cosmologies.