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Cybernetics Study Group 2026

Who: Anyone wishing to study cybernetics out loud and in curious company. Hosted by a student, for students (of all titles). Lovers of Bateson’s metalogues encouraged to participate!

What: First half of meetings for reading aloud and discussing Gregory Bateson’s Metalogues*. Second half open for discussing prescient cybernetic grapplings, learnings, livings, frustrations, appreciations, etc.

* Metalogues can be found in Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson 

When: Monthly, with time rotation per interest via Zoom (link)

Feb/26: 11 am PST – Why Do Things Get in a Muddle?

Mar/26: 3 pm PST – Why Do Frenchmen?

Apr/23: X PST – About Games and Being Serious

May/21: X PST – How Much Do You Know?

Jun/18: X PST – Why Do Things Have Outlines?

Jul/14: X PST – Why a Swan?

Aug/13 (or at ASC conference/Zoom TBD): X PST – What is an Instinct?

Why

Student — I want to ask a question

G.Bateson — Yes.

Student — It’s – do you want us to learn what you are telling us? Or is it all a sort of     

example, an illustration of something else?

G.Bateson — Yes, indeed.

Host Bio: Oliver Scout Guerisoli (LinkedIn) is a graduate student in the Transformative Inquiry Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies and is managing editor of World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. They have an eclectic background in neuropsychology, music performance, and entrepreneurship. When their nose is not in a book or hand in a little one’s hand, they can be found hiking the Oakland hills with their dog, swimming in open waters, or singing loudly to their tomato starts.