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I’m really into Varela right now, but I think any of the essays in this book could be relevant to our seminar for a hundred different reasons (I’ve attached 2 screen shots of the table of contents):
1. Science and Cultural Theory : Emergence and Embodiment : New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory Bruce Clark (Editor), Mark B. N. Hansen (Editor), 2009
Contributors. Linda Brigham, Bruce Clarke, Mark B. N. Hansen, Edgar Landgraf, Ira Livingston, Niklas Luhmann, Hans-Georg Moeller, John Protevi, Michael Schiltz, Evan Thompson, Francisco J. Varela, Cary Wolfe
http://site.ebrary.com.oca.ucsc.edu/lib/ucsc/docDetail.action?docID=10379879&p00=francisco%20varela
Also, anything from these two books:
2. The Embodied Mind Francisco J. Varela, Evan T. Thompson and Eleanor Rosch
http://cognet.mit.edu.oca.ucsc.edu/library/books/view?isbn=0262720213
3. Steps to An Ecology of Mind Gregory Bateson
http://www6.ufrgs.br/horizon/files/teoria2/bateson.pdf
Bonus: Inventory of the Gregory Bateson Papers UCSC Special Collections and Archives
http://www.oac.cdlib.org.oca.ucsc.edu/findaid/ark:/13030/kt029029gz
All his stuff is in our library, like right there ——> O.G. <—— In case anyone has a decade ahead with nothing else to do.