Something like a Fortean John Dee.
One might expect Richard Buckminster Fuller to fall into the category of “Forteans in name only,” as so many celebrities did—people Tiffany Thayer managed to get to sing up for the Society, even if they had no idea who Fort was, and never did anything with Fort, his ideas, or the Fortean Society again. But the story’s a bit more complicated than that.
Fuller himself is well known, at least as a name, and so the biography here will be abbreviated. There are a number of works on him, but none that I know of which have really made use of his so-called Chronofile, now housed at Stanford, in which—once he got the system rolling—Fuller was making notes on what he was doing every fifteen minutes! That might answer some questions about his Forteanism, but the small gain for the large amount of work means I have no plans to sort through it.
One might expect Richard Buckminster Fuller to fall into the category of “Forteans in name only,” as so many celebrities did—people Tiffany Thayer managed to get to sing up for the Society, even if they had no idea who Fort was, and never did anything with Fort, his ideas, or the Fortean Society again. But the story’s a bit more complicated than that.
Fuller himself is well known, at least as a name, and so the biography here will be abbreviated. There are a number of works on him, but none that I know of which have really made use of his so-called Chronofile, now housed at Stanford, in which—once he got the system rolling—Fuller was making notes on what he was doing every fifteen minutes! That might answer some questions about his Forteanism, but the small gain for the large amount of work means I have no plans to sort through it.