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Buckminster Fuller: Free Verse Poet of Geometry

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Buckminster Fuller: Free Verse Poet of Geometry

In 1975, when Buckminster Fuller was almost eighty, he gave a series of lectures on his life’s work. These talks span over forty hours and cover science, mathematics, architecture, design, philosophy, history, education, and more. They are collectively called “Everything I Know” and were unrehearsed, delivered “completely extemporaneously,” as Fuller describes. He says, “I'm working on a mental tapestry, and I am introducing thoughts, and so forth, and I am bringing in threads and you'll find me continually weaving.”  You can get a taste of the lectures in this lightly edited version of the first session:Full recordings of all the...

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