Stephen Nachmanovitch
Biographic Data
| ID | 989166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Nachmanovitch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Nachmanovitch |
| SIGNATURE | NACHMANOVITCH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Free Play Productions, Charlottesville, VA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Being Whole
I begin by thinking of my friend and mentor Gregory Bateson, but the questions here are broad and relate to the experience of many people, and many kinds of people. Gregory was known as a great polymath. But that is not quite right. In truth, he was a holomath, if we can coin that word. A polymath is a person who turns to, and sometimes excels in, multiple fields of endeavor. A holomath is a person who sees multiple fields as being really the sam…
Disruptive play
This is Play
Context is everything. Playing, exploring, artmaking, religion, literature, are not activities but contexts. Play is the way we encounter the multilayered nature of communication in humans and animals, in art forms and nature. Living beings learn to say as-if and sort-of; playing with these messages is the starting place of creativity, and one of the great primal life functions. Without play, learning and evolution are impossible. In the 1950s, G…
Gregory Bateson
Anthropologist, psychologist, biologist and epistemologist, Gregory Bateson was a holistic thinker who sought through study, teaching and writing to form and articulate an integrated way of viewing the world. This portrait of Bateson, who died in 1980, focuses on the person of Bateson as he was known as teacher, friend and guide to the author
This is Play
Context is everything. Playing, exploring, artmaking, religion, literature, are not activities but contexts. Play is the way we encounter the multilayered nature of communication in humans and animals, in art forms and nature. Living beings learn to say as-if and sort-of; playing with these messages is the starting place of creativity, and one of the great primal life functions. Without play, learning and evolution are impossible. In the 1950s, G…
Gregory Bateson
Anthropologist, psychologist, biologist and epistemologist, Gregory Bateson was a holistic thinker who sought through study, teaching and writing to form and articulate an integrated way of viewing the world. This portrait of Bateson, who died in 1980, focuses on the person of Bateson as he was known as teacher, friend and guide to the author
Gregory Bateson
Anthropologist, psychologist, biologist and epistemologist, Gregory Bateson was a holistic thinker who sought through study, teaching and writing to form and articulate an integrated way of viewing the world. This portrait of Bateson, who died in 1980, focuses on the person of Bateson as he was known as teacher, friend and guide to the author
This is Play
Context is everything. Playing, exploring, artmaking, religion, literature, are not activities but contexts. Play is the way we encounter the multilayered nature of communication in humans and animals, in art forms and nature. Living beings learn to say as-if and sort-of; playing with these messages is the starting place of creativity, and one of the great primal life functions. Without play, learning and evolution are impossible. In the 1950s, G…
Disruptive play
Being Whole
I begin by thinking of my friend and mentor Gregory Bateson, but the questions here are broad and relate to the experience of many people, and many kinds of people. Gregory was known as a great polymath. But that is not quite right. In truth, he was a holomath, if we can coin that word. A polymath is a person who turns to, and sometimes excels in, multiple fields of endeavor. A holomath is a person who sees multiple fields as being really the sam…
Art (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · American Sports and Literature (1 works) · Attention Economy in Education and Business (1 works)