You belong to the universe

Buckminster Fuller and the future

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Jonathon Keats: You belong to the universe (2016)

206 pages

English language

Published April 5, 2016

ISBN:
978-0-19-933823-8
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OCLC Number:
917131678

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A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary and his creations often bordered on the realm of science fiction. You Belong to the Universe documents Fuller's six-decade quest to "make the world work for one hundred percent of humanity." Critic and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats sets out to revive Fuller's unconventional practice of comprehensive anticipatory design, placing Fuller's philosophy in a modern context and dispelling much of the mythology surrounding Fuller's life. Keats argues that Fuller's life and ideas, namely doing "the most with the least," are now more relevant than ever as humanity struggles to meet the demands of an exploding world population with finite resources.

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Subjects

  • Architects
  • Biography
  • Inventors

Places

  • United States