Comparing Apples with Oranges
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Author: Dirck van Bekkum
Graceland SSSWCBS
The song Graceland of Paul Simon, on his album with the same title, is an example of ‘saying/singing something which cannot be said’ (SSSWCBS). Any song of importance contains a SSSWCBS message in everyday language and even more in scientific language. …
WHAT IS THE NAME OF WHAT MAKES FAMILIES TICK?
We all live in them, they facilitate our living over generations, we are born, grow old and die in them, we make love in them and our (grand)children are born in them. Mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, grandparents are all …
If I could say it, I wouldn’t have to dance it, would I?
“If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it” This quote of the famous dancer Isadora Duncan is of importance for ‘selfreflecting’ (Western) academics and scientists. It was used by Gregory Bateson to …
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What is a (cybernetic) system?
What does Gregory Bateson means in his analysis with a ‘cybernetics system’ ….Morris Berman in his ‘The Reenchantment of the World‘ (1984) writes: …Another way of stating it might be to say that the system is self-corrective in the direction …
From Linear to Circular to Rhizomic Thinking and back
Practioners in systemtheory and system (family) therapy are familiar with thinking in linear and circular (communication) processes. However most of them never learned to make the next step into rhizomic thinking. The conception of rhizomic thinking is coined by Deleuze …
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(Nederlands) OLIFANTEN IN KAMERS VAN PUBLIEKE OPINIES
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