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June 30, 2016 3:20 PM

Life as a Verb: Applying Buckminster Fuller to the 21st Century
posted by infini (4 comments total)

EIK
posted by hortense at 5:16 PM on June 30, 2016 [6 favorites]

I tried to read "Synergetics" but abandoned it pretty quickly. Not without some regrets, but it seemed impenetrably metaphysical, for dubious pay-off.
posted by thelonius at 6:03 PM on June 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

... Fuller noted that he had ceased being a noun. Instead, he wrote, “I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process.”

Glad I RTFA first, I was prepared to rant about verbing yet another noun in the article's title.
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:51 PM on June 30, 2016

He became an example of what Keats might call a “world-changer”, a person with an expansive view of our planet’s systemic shortcomings and how Big Ideas — specifically, Fuller’s — could fix them. His lecturing stamina became legendary. Picture a sprawling TED talk lasting for hours with dozens of ideas, concepts, and neologisms projected at the audience in a manic torrent of words. (Thanks to You Tube, one can get a sense of the Fuller experience.)

fwiw! here's ram dass paraphrasing fuller :P
posted by kliuless at 5:41 PM on July 5, 2016