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Pattern, Connection, Desire: In Honour of Gregory Bateson

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Australian Humanties Review, (2005)

Abstract

This paper reaches out, seeking points of communication between Aboriginal people of Australia, Gregory Bateson and other scholars. My project involves a form of dialogical spark. Of course I find points of connection, without which dialogue might slip into the ridiculous, but for me they are not a basis for unity so much as they are provocations. If our encounters situate us on a ground sufficiently shared to become meaningful and sufficiently differentiated to become provocative, what may erupt?

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