Vinay@leashless·Mar 30, 2017Next read his patents.Quote TweetVenkatesh Rao@vgr·Mar 30, 2017Bucky Fuller's writing is like page after page of gleefully hypomanic good-natured shitposting punctuated by occasional tweet-sized gems.16
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @leashlesswhat are they like? I think I'm done after 1 book... might browse a few others for gestalt though2:50 PM · Mar 30, 2017
Vinay@leashless·Mar 30, 2017Replying to @vgr.@vgr https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pages/US3063521-1.png… impenetrable but seminal https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pages/US2986241-4.png… https://bfi.org/about-fuller/bibliography/patents… it's the quality of the engineering.bfi.orgPatentsPatents 1920s STOCKADE: BUILDING STRUCTURE 1,633,702Filed: October 8, 1926Issued: June 28, 1927 STOCKADE: PNEUMATIC FORMING PROCESS 1,634,900Filed: December 31, 1924Issued: July…135
Vinay@leashless·Mar 30, 2017Replying to @vgr.@vgr A lot of people talk utopia, but Buckminster Fuller actually shows you how to build it.310
@mwiik·Mar 30, 2017Replying to @vgr and @leashlessI enjoyed Critical Path & GRUNCH of Giants, but that was many years ago & those may be either dated or obvious by now11
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Mar 30, 2017Replying to @mwiik and @leashlessthe writing does sound like it would have been a breath of fresh air in the 1960s.1
Bob Peterson@rwpeterson·Mar 30, 2017Replying to @vgr and @leashlessThe Artifacts of Buckminster Fuller is great patent/visual browsing if you live by an architecture library (huge 4 vol work)155