and "Why a Swan?"
This thinker compared the effects of the Treaty of Versailles to the curse of Atreus in a lecture calling Versailles and the development of cybernetics "the two historic events of the 20th century." One of his books includes "metalogues" with titles like "Why Do Frenchmen?" and "Why a Swan?" He described "complementary" and "symmetric" forms of a process by which social divisions are created. This man organized a project whose research found that communication problems in (*) schizophrenia were often due to "double binds," and coined the term "schismogenesis." He did anthropological fieldwork in Bali with his wife, and earlier in New Guinea, which led to the book Naven. For 10 points, name this author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind and husband of Margaret Mead.
This thinker compared the effects of the Treaty of Versailles to the curse of Atreus in a lecture calling Versailles and the development of cybernetics "the two historic events of the 20th century.
Gregory Bateson