An old dinosaur

被引:0
作者
Nachmanovitch, Stephen [1 ]
机构
[1] Free Play Prod, Charlottesville, VA USA
关键词
Creativity; Music; Epistemology; Bateson; Art; Improvisation;
D O I
10.1108/K-10-2012-0061
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
Purpose - A personal account of Gregory Bateson and the turning over of the generations, carrying some of Bateson's way of thinking forward to the time and beyond. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach - The approach taken is that of a synthesis. Findings - Bateson attributed the ecological peril to bad thinking and suggested that the author needs better thinking, including what the author can learn from the syncretic practice of art. To operate in the realm of play - music, poetry, myth, and so on - in the context of hearing your children talk about Malthusian events and mass extinctions is perhaps a way of fiddling while Rome burns. But possibly, this is itself the practice - away to begin to master the new kinds of thinking that the author needs to learn to do. Originality/value - The issues that Bateson touched on are intensely personal. The issue of the survival of the ecosystem and of human civilization in the forms that the author recognizes is not an academic or political matter, but personal for each of us, as is the creative response.
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页码:1439 / 1446
页数:8
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