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It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.
Jonathon Keats
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Jonathon Keats
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 2
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J. O. N. A. T. H. A. N. Keats
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[Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they - when the air flow and the Zephyr and these cars in the time period that were made by mainstream automakers. It was far enough in the future, far enough after that point that nobody really bothered to fact-check.
Jonathon Keats
I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible.
Jonathon Keats
I don't really know what that job [experimental philosopher] entails.
Jonathon Keats
I was totally taken in and totally taken by that myth starting in 1999, rather carelessly writing about this archive and starting to read [Buckminster Fuller] self-representation, misrepresentation, whatever you want to call it.
Jonathon Keats
Since I live part of the year in Italy, I live in a society in which I'm the optimistic American relative to the people who I'm around there. And that has actually brought to my attention the fact that I do have some sort of optimism and has made me think about it enough that I can attempt an answer.
Jonathon Keats
I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as [Buckminster Fuller] envisioned it because there is a technocratic worldview that I find horrific.
Jonathon Keats
I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that we can somehow get past the destruction that we have brought and that we are causing today.
Jonathon Keats
We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.
Jonathon Keats
I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that.
Jonathon Keats
...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.
Jonathon Keats
[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that boxiness and basically aeronautics hadn't been invented.
Jonathon Keats
At this point in history, the desperate need for building a sustainable society and for managing energy usage makes for a really - of vast importance that we need to place on where we live and how we live in those places.
Jonathon Keats
I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.
Jonathon Keats
What I think is really interesting is to look at the culture of disruption and of world-changing in terms of what [Buckminster] Fuller was doing and to draw the contrast more than the similarity.
Jonathon Keats
We clearly recognize the need for something that is what [Buckminster Fuller] represents and therefore it becomes really useful and really interesting to look at the ways in which world changing today totally misses everything that was valuable.
Jonathon Keats
I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.
Jonathon Keats
I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.
Jonathon Keats
That first of all feeds into what I do and secondly, it is emblematic of what I hope to achieve through what I do. That is to say all those conversations that are a result of it are the sorts of conversations that I think are the ultimate, most valuable by-product of what I'm doing.
Jonathon Keats
First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in the world today than in his own lifetime from sustainability in terms of the environment to income inequality.
Jonathon Keats
I don't have a cell phone. I am not a Luddite.
Jonathon Keats