Archival Materials by & about Gregory Bateson

Biographical Sketch

Gregory Bateson (1904—1980) was born in England to William and Beatrice (Durham) Bateson.

Videos

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• Childhood Rivalry in Bali and New Guinea — Gregory Bateson & Margaret Mead ((16:14))

• Bathing Babies in Three Cultures — Gregory Bateson & Margaret Mead ((12:12))

• Trance and Dance in Bali — Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead ((21:26))

• Schizophrenia — Gregory Bateson ((00:46))

• Milton Erickson Clinical Session - Patient with Depression — filmed by Gregory Bateson ((35:07))

• Communication and Interaction in Three Families — Filmed by Gregory Bateson & Weldon Kees in a Bateson and Jurgen Ruesch Project ((33:12))

Audio Recordings

• Consciousness and Evolution — Gregory Bateson

• Consciousness & Psychopathology — Gregory Bateson

• The Cultural and Epistemological Consequences of Economic Manipulation, Terminology, and Values — Gregory Bateson and Hazel Henderson

• Education and Learning — Gregory Bateson

• Epistemology — Gregory Bateson

• How We Know What We Know — Gregory Bateson

• Metalog: What is Instinct? — Gregory Bateson

• Orders of Change — Gregory Bateson

• Parts and Metaphors — Gregory Bateson (this link takes you to an outside site: Naropa Archives)

• Schizophrenia — Gregory Bateson

• A Light Governance for America: The Cultures and Strategies of Decentralization — Gregory Bateson talk at Lindisfarne, 1976

Photos

• Gregory Bateson, 1975, Boulder, Colorado — by Jeff Bloom (OLD Gallery without labels)

• Gregory Bateson, 1975, Boulder, Colorado — by Jeff Bloom

Articles

• Bateson, Gregory. (1975). Ecology of mind: The sacred. Loka: A Journal of Naropa Institute. 1, 24—27.

• Bateson, Gregory. (1978). Allegory. CoEvolution Quarterly, Spring: 44-46.

• Bateson, Gregory. (1978). Number is Different from Quantity. CoEvolution Quarterly, Spring.

• Bateson, Gregory. (1976). Orders of change. Loka 2: A Journal from Naropa Institute, pp. 59-63. Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday.

Books

• Bateson, Gregory. (1979/2002). /Mind and nature: A necessary unity.// Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

• Bateson, Gregory. (1972/2000). Steps to an ecology of mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• Bateson, Gregory, & Bateson, Mary Catherine. (2005). Angels fear: Towards an epistemology of the sacred. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

• Bateson, Gregory (editor Donaldson, Rodney E.) . (1991). Sacred unity: Further steps to an ecology of mind. New York: A Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book/Harper Collins.

• Ruesch, Jurgen, & Bateson, Gregory. (1987/2008). Communication: The social matrix of psychiatry. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Letters & Other Artifacts

• Gregory's Comments on a Pond Observation Log by Jeff Bloom, August 12, 1975

• "Paradigmatic Conservatism" — Gregory Bateson's last talk with his edits that was presented at Asilomar Conference Center on February 17, 1979.

Obituaries

• Gregory Bateson Obituary — from the Institute for Intercultural Studies

Special Documents

• Paradigmatic Conservatism
  • This document is a copy of a transcript of Gregory Bateson's address to a conference at Asilomar State Park Conference Center, February 17, 1979. This copy of the transcript contains the edits Gregory made to this printed copy prior to publication in the proceedings in Wilder-Mott, C. & Weakland, J. H. (1982). Rigor and imagination: Essays from the legacy of Gregory Bateson. New York: Praeger.

The hundred attendees at the 1979 conference in honor of Bateson participated in several intense days of academic exchange, culminating in a banquet to celebrate the guest of honor. The dinner preceded Bateson's keynote speech on "Paradigmatic Conservatism," which was to be the last major address of his life. Emotions were running high for all of the obvious reasons, heightened even more by the surprise arrival of charismatic Governor Jerry Brown shortly before dinner. He was among the five conference guests I asked to prepare a brief tribute to Bateson to deliver after the meal.

FROM: Carol Wilder's "Remembering Gregory Bateson" published in Kybernetes, 2013 — available on her site at: http://carolwilder.net/images/RememberingGregoryBatesonWebSite.pdf

• A Conversation with Gregory Bateson
  • Fields, Rick, & Greene, Richard. (1975). A conversation with Gregory Bateson. Loka: A Journal of Naropa Institute, 1, 28—34.

• "For God’s Sake, Margaret: Conversation with Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead" — also with Stuart Brand (link to an external site)

Other Resources

Brand, Stewart. (1974). II Cybernetic frontiers: Both sides of the necessary paradox (Conversations with Gregory Bateson) & Fanatic life and symbolic death among the computer bums. New York: Random House.