Patterns That Connect Patterns That Connect: A Thematic Foreword
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
In the film Mindwalk, Sonja Hoffman, a physicist played by Liv Ullmann, is asked by a politician (played by Sam Waterston) to name those thinkers whose work embodies this 'new systems thinking' Hoffman is speaking so highly of. Three names come to her--with the connector among them being Gregory Bateson. Such is Bateson’s legacy that this film, made over a decade after his death, sees fit to put his name out there as a systems thinker that the world of film viewers ought to become familiar with. Mindwalk is an extended peripatetic conversation between a physicist, a politician and a poet, set in the inspiring natural and designed space of Mont St. Michel, with the haunting minimalist music of Philip Glass. It is fitting that Bateson’s name should be invoked, certainly as a systems thinker whose work we need to know, but also as someone whose passions connect those with such diverse backgrounds and ways of seeing, as a physicist, politician and poet.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Cybernetics & Human Knowing, v. 12, issues 1-2, p. 5-10
Scholar Commons Citation
Steier, Frederick and Jorgenson, Jane, "Patterns That Connect Patterns That Connect: A Thematic Foreword" (2005). Communication Faculty Publications. 528.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/spe_facpub/528
