Issue 35, June 2005

Ecological Humanities Corner

Gregory Bateson and Ecological Aesthetics

The essays offered in this issue of the Ecological Humanities Corner honour one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century: Gregory Bateson. Peter Harries-Jones, Bateson's foremost intellectual biographer, offers an introduction to Bateson's thought on ecological aesthetics, and at the same time introduces the two main essays. As he explains, the essays were originally presented in a symposium, organised by Katja Neves-Graça, that was part of the Bateson's centenary celebrations in Berkeley California (November 2004). They bring Bateson's aesthetics into ethnographic analysis, seeking both textual and epistemological expressions of the ‘patterns that connect'.

Deborah Rose and Libby Robin
Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies
Australian National University, Canberra

deborah.rose@anu.edu.au or libby.robin@anu.edu.au

In Australian Humanities Review, see also

• The Ecological Humanities in Action: An Invitation from Deborah Rose

• the Ecological Humanities archive

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