Published:December 2021

Keywords:
Pietro Barbetta, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, American Society for Cybernetics, Heinz von Foerster, Jack Lannamann, John Shotter, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Radical Constructivism, Autopoiesis, Justice, Mercy, Love, Cognition, Shannon, Weaver, Communication, Detonative Communication, Connotative Communication, Perturbation, Non-Instructive Interaction, Intensity, Embodiment, Enaction, History, Social Constructionism, Psychosis, Society, Niklas Luhmann, Biology, Sociology, Context, Environment, Structural Drift, Solidarity.

Pietro Barbetta

Pietro Barbetta is Director of the Milan Centre of Family Therapy. He teaches Psychodynamic Theories at the University of Bergamo, member of the World Association for Cultural Psychiatry (WACP) and President of the Lombardy section of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approach to Psychosis (ISPS). He is responsible of the "clinical" section for the online magazine Doppiozero, recently wrote essays on Connessioni, Riflessioni Sistemiche (AIEMS), kasparhauser.net, http://tysm.org, Human Systems, Open Journal of Social Sciences, Trauma and Memory (http://www.eupsycho.com), Locus Solus. https://www.cmtf.it/il-team/pietro-barbetta/

Abstract

“There is no information – only perturbation”, Pietro Barbetta tells us, referring to one of Maturana’s most subversive theories about Communication.

As always, Petro Barbetta, in simple words and with examples, in his own expressive way, focuses on significant and “difficult” concepts of Maturana and Varela and also of other thinkers from many different fields...

This “interview” with Pietro Barbetta is full of “information” (Sorry, Professor Barbetta, sorry Professor Maturana!) AND “perturbations” – a whole realm of knowledge and a continuous invitation for thinking...