Gregory Bateson
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Gregory Bateson (1904-2004) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, image anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected with many other fields.
His books include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979).
Bateson and colleagues in Palo Alto, California, developed the double-bind theory of schizophrenia. Bateson's interest in systems theory runs through his work.
He was one of the original participants of the Macy conferences in Cybernetics (1941-1960), and the later set on Group Processes (1954-1960), where he represented the social and behavioral sciences.
He was interested in epistemology and semantics.
Stewart Brand, an editor and writer, has helped him extend his reach.
Early life and education
Bateson was born in Grantchester, England, on May 9th, 1904. He was the third and youngest son of (Caroline) Beatrice Durham and William Bateson, a renowned geneticist. Gregor Mendel, the Austrian monk who pioneered the modern science of genetics, was named Gregory.
Bateson's younger brother studied at Charterhouse School from 1917 to 1921, earning a Bachelor of Arts in biology at St. John's College, Cambridge, 1925, and continued at Cambridge from 1927 to 1929.
Bateson's life was greatly affected by his two brothers' deaths, according to Lipset (1982). John Bateson (1898–1918), the second brother of the three brothers, was killed in World War I, but Martin Bateson (1900–1922), the second brother, was supposed to continue his father's footsteps as a scientist, but he and his father fell out of competition with his father over his desire to become a writer and playwright. Martin's public suicide by gunshot underneath the statue of Anteros in Piccadilly Circus on April 22, 1922, which was John's birthday. The parents' aspired hope about Gregory following the event, which turned a private family tragedy into a public display.
Personal life
He was married to Margaret Mead, an American cultural anthropologist. Before heading to the United States, he applied his experience to the war effort. Mary Catherine Bateson (1939–2021), a Bateson and Mead daughter who also became an anthropologist, was a Bateson and Mead researcher. Bateson divorced Mead in 1950 after being estranged from Mead. He married Elizabeth "Betty" Sumner (1919-1992), the niece of Oregon's Episcopalian Bishop Walter Taylor Sumner. They had a son, John Sumner Bateson (1951–2015), as well as twins who died soon after birth in 1953. In 1957, Bateson and Sumner were divorced, after which Bateson was married for the third time to therapist and social worker Lois Cammack (born 1928), 1961. Nora Bateson, their one daughter (born 1969), was their daughter.
Bateson was a lifelong sufferer, as his family had been for several generations. He was a member of William Irwin Thompson's esoteric Lindisfarne Association.
Bateson died in the San Francisco Zen Center's guest house on July 4, 1980, at the age of 76. Lily King's Euphoria is a fictionalized account of Bateson's friendships with Mead and Reo Fortune in pre-WWII New Guinea.
Career
Bateson argued in linguistics at the University of Sydney in 1928. He served as a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1931 to 1937. He spent the years before World War II in the South Pacific in New Guinea and Bali doing anthropology.
He introduced systems theory and cybernetics to the social and behavioral sciences in the 1940s. Although initially reluctant to join the intelligence services, Bateson and scores of other anthropologists were in OSS during World War II. Julia Child (then Julia McWilliams), Paul Cushing Child, and others were all stationed in the same offices as Julia Child (then Julia McWilliams). He spent a substantial portion of the war on 'black propaganda' radio broadcasts. He was sent on undercover operations in Burma and Thailand, and he also worked in China, India, and Ceylon. Bateson's theory of schismogenesis helped to inflame discord among enemy combatants. He was dissatisfied with his wartime service and disagreed with his wife over whether science should be applied to social planning or used only to promote knowledge rather than action.
Bateson and his coworkers Donald Jackson, Jay Haley, and John H. Weakland, also known as the Bateson Project (1953-1993), created the double-bind theory in Palo Alto, California.
He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1956.
Bateson was one of the founding members of the Macy conferences on cybernetics (1941-1960) and later on Group Processes (1954-1960), where he represented the social and behavioral sciences.
He taught at the Humanistic Psychology Institute in San Francisco, renamed Saybrook University, and joined the faculty of Kresge College in 1972, Santa Cruz, California.
He was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976. California Governor Jerry Brown appointed him to the Regents of the University of California, a position he held until his death, though he resigned from the Special Research Projects committee in 1979 in protest against the university's efforts on nuclear weapons.
Bateson spent the last decade of his life developing a "meta-science" of epistemology in an attempt to bring together the various early versions of systems theory that were emerging in various fields of science.