Upside Down Gods

Download or read book Upside-down Gods written by Peter Harries-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human survival requires a reorientation of science away from its exclusive technical and materialist premises focused on control, towards feedback and relational processes of organism-plus-environment. Gregory Bateson's holistic approach unites culture, communication, psychology, biology and ecology within a single trans-disciplinary enquiry substituting pattern, perceptual difference, and relations for 'thinginess' of scientific data.