About Jonathon Keats
American artist and philosopher... | Jonathon Keats is an American conceptual artist and experimental philosopher known for creating large-scale thought experiments. Keats was born in New York City and studied philosophy at Amherst College. He now lives in San Francisco and Italy.
![“[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…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9f5/jonathon-keats-10822_air_buckminster-fuller-started-talking-about_1066738.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fb3/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_first-of-all-buckminster-fuller-s-identi_2190146.jpg)
![“I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has identified a scale of action I think is actually really compelling.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5b5/jonathon-keats-10822_action_i-would-say-that-what-the-value-of-talki_2352126.jpg)
![“My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to imagine alternate worlds, to writing about [Buckminster] Fuller who was the ultimate world man creating all sorts of alternate worlds and believing that they were imminent to…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/aaf/jonathon-keats-10822_believe_my-work-is-very-eclectic-i-write-books-t_3218759.jpg)
![“I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might - why my publisher would publish this book [You belong to the universe] about it long after he's dead and irrelevant by many standards has to do with the fact that he was in a…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/452/jonathon-keats-10822_book_i-think-that-in-the-first-place-why-we-c_1362542.jpg)
![“Just enough of that to be able to give the reader a sense of skepticism that all - it seemed like all that was necessary. I don't really care. But what I do care about is what was happening within the realm of automobiles at the time that [Buckminster Fuller] invented his Dymaxion car because that…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3b3/jonathon-keats-10822_able_just-enough-of-that-to-be-able-to-give-t_2011551.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2f1/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_what-i-think-is-really-interesting-is-to_3009027.jpg)
![“I think that [Buckminster] Fuller certainly would have found a way in which to be funded by Google in a way that he was funded by the Marine Corps and everybody else. He would have remained obstinately his own creature.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/704/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_i-think-that-buckminster-fuller-certainl_1675141.jpg)
![“[Buckminster] Fuller's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as a result, you have something like: we've got bad weather in New York City; let's put a dome over it. And so I don't want to put a dome over Manhattan and I hope that nobody…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/864/jonathon-keats-10822_bad-weather_buckminster-fuller-s-idea-of-progress-is_1517956.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/77c/jonathon-keats-10822_archives_i-was-totally-taken-in-and-totally-taken_810745.jpg)
![“We're back around to [Buckminster] Fuller again. Back around to the recognition of patterns, which may be true or may not be. But nevertheless, have enough of a semblance that they're worth exploring. That, to me, is where my work begins.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/334/jonathon-keats-10822_being-true_we-re-back-around-to-buckminster-fuller_1816940.jpg)
![“All sorts of problems and the interconnectedness between them that [Buckminster Fuller] was able to perceive sometimes rightly, often wrongly, always interestingly and also the fact that he was looking at solutions often that were not feasible in his own time but potentially could be applied today.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/85b/jonathon-keats-10822_able_all-sorts-of-problems-and-the-interconne_1584952.jpg)
![“[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.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5bb/jonathon-keats-10822_automobile_buckminster-fuller-said-that-everything_134972.jpg)