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Dear Dan,
I don't know of any ftp sites, but there are a couple books by or about
Fuler and his work that would be good introductions. All of them should
be easily-available in as library-rich an area as Boston!
For Fuller's work, two good books are Fuller and Robert Marks, _The
Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller_ (c. 1963, reprinted 1970). Marks
was a book editor who worked with Fuller on a couple projects, and the
books gives a good introduction to his ideas and inventions. Another
good but less comprehensive book is _Inventions_, which has his patents.
There have been numerous hagiographies of Fuller published over the years,
sometimes reasonably good reads but mainly industriously unreflective and
uncritical. Hugh Kenner's biography is probably the best.
Fuller's own writings are quite difficult to get through (Wendell Barry
in _Speaking for Words_ has an excellent critique of Fuller's writing style),
but I think _Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth_ is somewhat more accessible
and representative of his prose and thinking. There are also a number of
magazine articles, published mainly in the 1950s to 1970s, that profile
Fuller and give "day in the life" views of him. These have been indexed in
a bio-bibliography published by Vance (which does a lot of these for
public figures) available at your university library.
Fuller's public impact peaked in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and some
artifacts from that period, most notably the _Whole Earth Catalog_ and the
_Domebooks_, give a good sense of what people thought of them now. They're
also a bit of a walk down memory lane, as the _WEC_ was as ubiquitous as
the Sears Catalog in certain counties and college towns.
Good luck in your search.
Best,
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Department of History, U.C. Berkeley
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Dear Dan,
I don't know of any ftp sites, but there are a couple books by or about
Fuler and his work that would be good introductions. All of them should
be easily-available in as library-rich an area as Boston!
For Fuller's work, two good books are Fuller and Robert Marks, _The
Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller_ (c. 1963, reprinted 1970). Marks
was a book editor who worked with Fuller on a couple projects, and the
books gives a good introduction to his ideas and inventions. Another
good but less comprehensive book is _Inventions_, which has his patents.
There have been numerous hagiographies of Fuller published over the years,
sometimes reasonably good reads but mainly industriously unreflective and
uncritical. Hugh Kenner's biography is probably the best.
Fuller's own writings are quite difficult to get through (Wendell Barry
in _Speaking for Words_ has an excellent critique of Fuller's writing style),
but I think _Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth_ is somewhat more accessible
and representative of his prose and thinking. There are also a number of
magazine articles, published mainly in the 1950s to 1970s, that profile
Fuller and give "day in the life" views of him. These have been indexed in
a bio-bibliography published by Vance (which does a lot of these for
public figures) available at your university library.
Fuller's public impact peaked in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and some
artifacts from that period, most notably the _Whole Earth Catalog_ and the
_Domebooks_, give a good sense of what people thought of them now. They're
also a bit of a walk down memory lane, as the _WEC_ was as ubiquitous as
the Sears Catalog in certain counties and college towns.
Good luck in your search.
Best,
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Department of History, U.C. Berkeley