Book Launch and Panel with Nora Bateson & Phillip Guddemi
We are pleased to offer an online double Bateson book launch!
Join us for this epic celebration of readings, conversation, and discussion of over 150 years of intergenerational ecological inquiry.
Nora’s latest book, Belly, brings the topic of infinite orders of change into the intimate world of intergenerational learning from the belly that has been tending and digesting all along: through the kitchen and shared meals, the birth room, the deathbed, the grief, the art that arrives unannounced, the parenting, the ceremonies and celebrations, the unsticking of habits of perception, the recognition of the among-ing of all life.
We will be joined by several members of the team that made Belly possible: editor, layout designer and artist Leslie Thulin Eubanks; and artists Vivien Leung and Rachel Hentsch.
Renowned Bateson scholar Phillip Guddemi will also be sharing from his most recent research and compilation project, Gregory Bateson's Ecology of Mind: The Course. In 1976, Gregory Bateson taught a course called An Ecology of Mind. For nearly fifty years, the recordings of that course sat in the archive, unpublished and unheard by most, even while the ideas continued. Compiled and edited by Phillip Guddemi from the transcripts of recorded lectures, this 465-page volume breathes the course into new form and onto the page: Gregory in conversation and mid-thought, telling stories, circling questions from many angles. A new entry point into learning to think ecologically.
Two Generations. Two Books, Infinite Orders of Change!