Podcast appearances and mentions of Jonathon Keats

Some people might call Jonathon Keats an artist, but he calls himself an experimental philosopher. His body of work explores the way that human life intersects with political and economic systems. His first major work, in the year 2000, involved sitting in a chair thinking for hours, and then selling his thoughts to patrons at prices calculated on the basis of their income. He once copyrighted his own mind as a sculpture. He created a ringtone based on John Cage's famous piece, 4'33”, which is four minutes and thirty-three seconds of complete silence. He built a pinhole camera that takes photographic exposures lasting 100 years. In Berkeley, California, he built a temple for the worship of science. Recently, he has been involved in efforts to formalize rights of nature. Jonathon challenges us to look carefully at the assumptions built into our markets, our democracies and our technologies, and constantly seems to do it in ways that seem abstract at the time, but end up prefiguring political or cultural issues years or decades before they erupt. He's a wonderful guide to this territory, and to the big questions it involves. In this conversation Matt and Jonathon discuss the philosophy of timekeeping. They consider the connectedness and the alienation of being on universal atomic time, the promise of alternative systems such as the river clock, and how different notions of timekeeping influence our understanding of democracy and nature.Jonathon Keats is an experimental philosopher, artist and writer. He is currently a fellow at the Berggruen Institute, a research fellow at the Long Now Foundation, a research associate at the University of Arizona, principal philosopher at Earth Law Center and an artist-in-residence at Hyundai, the SETI Institute and Flux Projects. His most recent book is “You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future” (Oxford University Press).Mentioned:Alaska RiverTimeIf you have feedback or ideas for future episodes, email us at info@radicalxchange.org.Host: Matt PrewittGuest: Jonathan KeatsProducer: Jack Henderson Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:WebsiteXBlueSkyYouTubeLinkedInDiscord

Some artists work with pen and ink, some use brushes and paint. And some make art out of time. Meet some contemporary artists who are finding new ways to bridge the distance between us and the furthest reaches of time.Deep Time is a series all about the natural ecologies of time from To The Best Of Our Knowledge and the Center for Humans and Nature. We'll explore life beyond the clock, develop habits of "timefulness" and learn how to live with greater awareness of the many types of time in our lives.Original Air Date: February 15, 2025Interviews In This Hour: Crafting cosmic art through deep time — What if clocks were synced to the flow of a river? — Capturing a symphony of time in a dawn chorusGuests: Katie Paterson, Jonathon Keats, Alex BraidwoodNever want to miss an episode? Subscribe to the podcast.Want to hear more from us, including extended interviews and favorites from the archive? Subscribe to our newsletter.

Some artists work with pen and ink, some use brushes and paint. And some make art out of time. Meet some contemporary artists who are finding new ways to bridge the distance between us and the furthest reaches of time.Deep Time is a series all about the natural ecologies of time from To The Best Of Our Knowledge and the Center for Humans and Nature. We'll explore life beyond the clock, develop habits of "timefulness" and learn how to live with greater awareness of the many types of time in our lives.Original Air Date: February 15, 2025Interviews In This Hour: Crafting cosmic art through deep time — What if clocks were synced to the flow of a river? — Capturing a symphony of time in a dawn chorusGuests: Katie Paterson, Jonathon Keats, Alex BraidwoodNever want to miss an episode? Subscribe to the podcast.Want to hear more from us, including extended interviews and favorites from the archive? Subscribe to our newsletter.

The very best philosophy is equal parts exhilarating and distressing. As one of the most profound pursuits towards greater understanding, through the love of wisdom, philosophy employs logic and demands critical thinking. But at worst it is left in the esoteric world of theory: disconnected from the world we live in. Out of touch. While philosophy is the practice of asking questions, experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats asks questions of it back. On this episode of Looking Outside we explore active, participatory thinking through real world experimentation with philosophical hypotheses and ideas. Jonathon shares how he pursues curiosity by creating tangible artefacts that others can interact with. By "doing" philosophy, Jonathon argues, we can create pathways into rabbit holes and an invitation to deeper exploration. ----------More:Looking Outside podcast www.looking-outside.comFollow Jonathon on X & ForbesWatch Jonathon's panel at the 2024 Dubai Future ForumExplore Jonathon's experiments: A Clock in the Forest, Centuries of the Bristlecone, Millennium Camera, Tasting Tomorrow, Alaska River Time.Connect with host, Jo Lepore on LinkedIn & X----------⭐ Follow, like and rate the show - it makes a difference!----------Looking Outside is a podcast exploring fresh perspectives of familiar topics. Hosted by its creator, futurist and marketer, Jo Lepore. New episodes every 2 weeks. Never the same topic.All views are that of the host and guests and don't necessarily reflect those of their employers. Copyright 2025. Theme songs by Azteca X.

R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House was a marvel of modern technology that promised to create freedom by liberating the mind and curing all of society's problems... so why aren't you living in one right now? https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/fuller-houses/ Key sources for this episode include Jonathon Keats' You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future; Lloyd Steven Sieden's Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and His Work; and Michael Brian Schiffer's Spectacular Flops: Game-Changing Technologies That Failed... but especially Lorettta Lorance's Becoming Bucky Fuller, which is both the most thorough and most critical biography of Fuller and definitely worth checking out. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/orderjackalope.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orderjackalope/ Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com

David Henty had a talent for art from a young age. He grew up poring over Hogarth drawings. For a long time, it didn't feel like something that he could easily pursue. But after two prison sentences spent painting as much as he wanted, there was no looking back. David was set on making a living as an artist. The thing is… the only paintings he could manage to sell for any profit, were all forgeries of famous artists like Lowry, Bacon and Picasso. Matthew Syed explores how David's copy cat approach to art allowed him to unlock his own creativity. Matthew delves into the world of art forgery to explore how this practice blurs lines between creativity and imitation, and challenges notions of authenticity in the art world. He considers whether copying is actually a necessary step on the way to becoming skilled at a particular craft, and whether forgers - as pranksters - might even qualify as modern conceptual artists, and also ponders how the rise of artificial intelligence platforms might make forgers of us all. Featuring: David Henty, artist and writer, Austin Kleon, artist and philosopher, Jonathon Keats, and BBC journalist and AI expert Lara Lewington. Presenter: Matthew Syed Producer: Nadia Mehdi Series editor: Katherine Godfrey Sound design and mix: Naomi Clarke Theme tune by Ioana Selaru A Novel production for BBC Radio 4

We follow up with SETI Artist in Residence Jonathon Keats about his project The Library of the Great Silence, an installation art project that addresses one of the implications of the Fermi Paradox. If the cosmos is only sparsely populated by intelligent beings that implies that at some point in their development almost all technological societies encounter a barrier they cannot cross. To counter such a dystopian prospect, Keats proposes an intergalactic lending library to research planetary futures. Branches of this library have already been installed at the Allen Telescope Array and at museums and universities around the world. Join SETI AIR Director Bettina Forget in conversation with Jonathon Keats and find out what's in the library! Recorded on 7 September 2023.

Poznejme dějiny i vlastnosti této naší jedinečné schopnosti …od prvních forem života na dně oceánu až po nová zjištění moderní vědy. Proč je dobré chodit? Co se děje v mozku, když se hýbeme? Co je to bipedie a proč je pro člověka tak specifická? Chůze: prospívá svalům, zlepšuje držení těla, chrání a uzdravuje orgány, zpomaluje proces stárnutí mozku… …a dokonce ho může i zvrátit. Díky mozku a nervové soustavě se umíme proplétat davem a orientovat se podle „vnitřní GPS“. Když se mozek rozpohybuje, začínáme myslet kreativněji, zlepší se nám nálada a odplaví se stres. A když kráčíme s někým bok po boku za stejným cílem, podporuje to naši soudržnost. Společná chůze je tmelem, který nás jako lidstvo vždy držel pohromadě a pomáhal nám přežít. Kniha je pro vás, pokud máte dvě nohy a umíte chodit, umíte chodit vzpříměně, chcete být zdravější, kreativnější a spokojenější, chcete lépe pochopit, proč naše města vypadají, jak vypadají, chcete zjistit, jak si chůzí dopomoci k zdravějšímu mozku, už jste příliš dlouho seděli a víte, že to není úplně správné. Musíme znovu začít chodit. Ať už po horách, po parku, nebo prostě jen do školy a do práce. V knize se dozvíte Proč je pro člověka chůze tak důležitá a přínosná Jak se naše schopnost chodit vyvíjela a my se díky ní dostali všude Jak a proč funguje mechanismus chůze tak spolehlivě Proč bychom měli na chůzi myslet při designu a architektuře měst Proč je chůze důležitá nejenom pro tělo, ale i mysl a mozek Jak můžeme díky pohybu myslet kreativněji a být zdravější Jak dokáže chůze přispět k zlepšovaní a změnám ve společnosti Dovolme této knize, která je doslova ódou na chůzi, ať nás obohatí o cenné poznatky týkající se chození, ať už jde o jeho pozitivní účinky na lidské zdraví, radost z pohybu nebo jeho mechanické principy. Pak jistě pochopíme, jak je důležité vstát, začít chodit, a objevit tak své šťastnější, zdravější a vynalézavější já. Proč je chůze důležitá? Je holistická: každý její aspekt prospívá každému aspektu našeho bytí. Je pro každého a je to činnost, která je pro nás zcela přirozená. Je prospěšná nejen pro naše tělo a mozek, ale i pro celou společnost. Zprostředkovává nám multisenzorické vnímání světa ve všech jeho tvarech, podobách, zvucích a pocitech, neboť při chůzi je mozek využíván mnohými rozmanitými způsoby Společné pochodování za určitým účelem – může být účinným popudem k opravdové změně ve společnosti. Je pro nás životně důležitá, a to jak z individuálního, tak i kolektivního hlediska. Proto by se měla odrážet ve způsobu uspořádání našeho života a společnosti. Je třeba, aby veřejná politická rozhodnutí plně reflektovala to, proč nás chůze činí tak jedinečně lidskými, a tuto skutečnost zabudovala i do městského a příměstského plánování. Dělá z nás sociální tvory tím, že osvobozuje ruce pro používání nástrojů a pro gesta, díky nimž vyjadřujeme ostatním nějaký význam. Umožňuje, abychom se mohli držet za ruce a vysílat zamilované signály. Umožňuje nám poskytnout si vzájemnou fyzickou oporu. Po přečtení O'Marovy knihy budete vědět proč si vybíráte konkrétní trasy po okolí, je během cestování nejlepší chodit, chodit, chodit – zejména po největších městech světa, jsou věci, se kterými v práci bojujete, po procházce najednou snazší, máte s přáteli, se kterými chodíte (na procházku), silnější vztahy, můžete mít již po třech dnech bez chůze abstinenční bolesti. Řekli o knize „Překvapivě fascinující vědecká úvaha o nejobyčejnější lidské činnosti.“ ― Ron Charles, Washington Post „Dostatečně informativní a přesvědčivá, aby probudila i toho nejzarytějšího gaučového povaleče.“ ― Jonathon Keats, New Scientist „Poctivý ve svém rozsahu, aktuální ve své naléhavosti a přesvědčivý ve své prezentaci…. O'Mara se věnuje zdánlivě prozaickému tématu a ukazuje, jak fascinující a životně důležité ve skutečnosti je.“ ― Michael Berry, Sierra „Úchvatné a výstižné… O'Mara dokáže poutavě vplést historii, filozofii a poezii do vědecké literatury.“ ― M.R. O'Connor, Undark „Jak O'Mara jasně říká, každá procházka je transformativní. Rozšiřuje mozkové buňky, nastartuje svaly, uvolňuje tvůrčího ducha a zlepšuje náladu. Tato kniha by mohla – a měla – změnit váš život.“ ― Florence Williams, autor knihy The Nature Fix „Přesvědčivé… Chvála chůze je prošpikována postřehy o všem možném, od básníků a flâneurů 19. století až po moderní experimenty se subjekty hrajícími videohry ve skeneru fMRI.“ ― Helen Davies, Sunday Times Autor: Shane O'Mara Typ knihy: audiokniha, e-kniha, tištěná kniha Vydavatelství: Nakladatelství Audiolibrix Vazba: pevná vazba Délka audioknihy: 7:51 h Počet stránek knihy: 224 Původní název: In Praise of Walking Audioknihu Proč chodíme si můžete koupit v nejlepším obchodě s audioknihami Audiolibrix. Knihu a e-knihu Proč chodíme si můžete koupit na webu nakladatelství Audiolibrix

Becky Ripley and Emily Knight celebrate the intelligence of a brainless slime mould. As single-cell protists, with no brain and no nervous system, slime moulds do not 'think' in human terms, but they can calculate and navigate complex systems with incredible efficiency and objectivity. With some help from a few oat flakes, because slime mould loves oats. One species in particular, Physarum Polycephalum, has proven itself to outwit us time and time again, from solving complex urban transport problems to mapping the structures of the cosmic web. In doing so, it totally overthrows our human definition of intelligence, where we have positioned ourselves at the top of a big biological hierarchy. From the bottom up, slime mould is starting to uproot the whole system.Featuring Merlin Sheldrake, writer of 'Entangled Life', and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats.

Jonathon Keats is an American conceptual artist and experimental philosopher known for creating large-scale thought experiments. He is the author of various books, including You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future which sets out to revive the inventor Buckminster Fuller's (1895-1983) unconventional practice of comprehensive anticipatory design, placing Fuller's philosophy in a modern context and dispelling much of the mythology surrounding Fuller's life. As a major influence on this podcast, we were delighted to have a chance to delve deep into the life and work of Buckminster Fuller with Jonathon, a visionary thinker in his own right. Indeed, legendary sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling says of Jonathon: “If he's one in a billion rather than just a million, he might become the pioneer of a mighty school of twenty­first century scientific art­philosophy. If he's lucky, he won't be—but if we're lucky, he will." We discussed experimental philosophy, thought experiments, Spaceship Earth and Bucky's “world game,” why absurdity is essential, and why boldly transgressive ideas are so important to revitalizing questions that ultimately concern us all: what is to be valued in life and what kind of future do we want? More information on Jonathon can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon_Keats We discussed: You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future, Oxford University Press, 2016: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/you-belong-to-the-universe-9780199338238?cc=us&lang=en& The Library of the Great Silence: https://www.seti.org/event/seti-live-library-great-silence-and-fermi-paradox The Museum of Future History: https://mofh.net/ The Future Democracies Laboratory: https://projects.cadre.sjsu.edu/democracyproject/ The Plasmodium Consortium: https://sites.hampshire.edu/gallery/the-plasmodium-symposium/

As we enter these long, hot days of this unusual year, I'll be releasing three special episodes that aim to provide some dreamy inspiration for late summer. Between now and labor day, I'll be speaking with three dynamic artists over three episodes. The conversations move from foundational questions around what technology actually means to playful platforms for new forms of co-creation and community, and then finally to a discussion of astrology as an ancient, vital technology for spiritual practice.These artists, Jonathon Keats, Constant Dullaart, and Astrologer Deborah Fisher, give us new space to dream as we enter these late summer days when reality seems to be consumed by the sun. I hope your are enlivened by the work of this special trio of thinkers and makers, with these Dog Days Special episodes.Today's episode of Informer, part 1 of 3 Dog Days Special episodes, is with experimental philosopher and artist Jonathon Keats. Jonathan's work forefronts ways in which decisions are made in technology, highlighting the fact that they are decisions, not inevitabilities. He talks about technology as a way in which we become who we are and one which can also *distort* who we become. I think you'll enjoy this episode, as it articulates a lot of the topics that I've been exploring this year. i find his work to provide an insightful foundation, a look at the first causes that brought us to where we are, from human's first use of the pick axe to this moment of emergent capitalisms based on surveillance and instrumentalization of behavior.  Jonathon has a background in philosophy and brings it to bear in a practice that is always burrowing into our innate relationships between the technologies we create and how that influences our sense of self. 

We discussed: - breaking systems - art criticism - Aesthetics - the potential of art - commodification of art - the artistry of forgery - artist materials - funding     People + Places mentioned: Andy Warhol - https://www.warhol.org Eric Hebborn - http://www.intenttodeceive.org/forger-profiles/eric-hebborn/ Tom Keating - https://www.brandler-galleries.com/artist/tom-keating/ Eva Hesse - https://www.theartstory.org/artist/hesse-eva/ Edvard Munch - https://www.munchmuseet.no/en/edvard-munch/ Robert Rauschenberg - https://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org Hyundai Residency - https://www.hyundai.news/eu/articles/press-releases/hyundai-motor-presents-pioneering-neuroscience-concept-with-lacma.html SETI residency - https://www.seti.org/seti-artists-residence The Library of the Great Silence - https://www.seti.org/library-great-silence     https://www.modernisminc.com/artists/Jonathon_KEATS/ https://twitter.com/jonathonkeats https://www.seti.org/air/jonathon-keats   Audio engineering by Mickey at CushAudio Services Music by Peat Biby     Supported in part by: EEA Grants from Iceland, Liechtenstein + Norway – https://eeagrants.org               And we appreciate the assistance of our partners in this project: Hunt Kastner – https://huntkastner.com + Kunstsentrene i Norge – https://www.kunstsentrene.no  

We discussed: - breaking systems - art criticism - Aesthetics - the potential of art - commodification of art - the artistry of forgery - artist materials - funding     People + Places mentioned: Andy Warhol - https://www.warhol.org Eric Hebborn - http://www.intenttodeceive.org/forger-profiles/eric-hebborn/ Tom Keating - https://www.brandler-galleries.com/artist/tom-keating/ Eva Hesse - https://www.theartstory.org/artist/hesse-eva/ Edvard Munch - https://www.munchmuseet.no/en/edvard-munch/ Robert Rauschenberg - https://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org Hyundai Residency - https://www.hyundai.news/eu/articles/press-releases/hyundai-motor-presents-pioneering-neuroscience-concept-with-lacma.html SETI residency - https://www.seti.org/seti-artists-residence The Library of the Great Silence - https://www.seti.org/library-great-silence     https://www.modernisminc.com/artists/Jonathon_KEATS/ https://twitter.com/jonathonkeats https://www.seti.org/air/jonathon-keats   Audio engineering by Mickey at CushAudio Services Music by Peat Biby     Supported in part by: EEA Grants from Iceland, Liechtenstein + Norway – https://eeagrants.org               And we appreciate the assistance of our partners in this project: Hunt Kastner – https://huntkastner.com + Kunstsentrene i Norge – https://www.kunstsentrene.no  

ОСТОРОЖНО!!! После прослушивания нового выпуска возможны побочные эффекты: недоверие к музейным этикеткам и постоянная подозрительность. В новом выпуске подкаста мы вспоминаем великих фальсификаторов. Поговорим о том, как непросто создать подделку и убедить всех в её подлинности, вспомним главных обманщиков от искусства 20 века, а также обсудим, почему тема фальсификаций вызывает такой ажиотаж у публики. Подделывал ли Микеланджело античные скульптуры? Какого героя помнят в Одессе за то, что он смог обмануть специалистов Лувра? Кто решил продать 56 фальшивых картин Модильяни? Как прославиться, написать две книги и сняться в фильме о себе любимом, сидя за решёткой? Ответы на эти вопросы в новом выпуске Talk About Art P.S. Упомянутая книга — «Forged: Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age», Jonathon Keats Упомянутые фильмы и сериалы — «Гамбит», 2012 | сериал «Белый воротничок», 2009 — 2014

A new conceptual art project called the Atlanta River Time Project aims to challenge the delusion that humans are separate from nature by offering an alternative method of timekeeping: the meander and flow of a river. Created by experimental philosopher and artist Jonathon Keats, the Atlanta River Time Project keeps time by comparing the current rate of flow of the Chattahoochee River against its historical average. I had the chance to speak with Jonathon about his new project earlier this summer, and now I'm happy to share our conversation with you. Atlanta River Time Website: https://fluxprojects.org/productions/atlanta-river-time/ Stories for Earth: Transcript: Support us through Patreon or a one-time donation: https://storiesforearth.com/support-us/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGmH6FisTges9AzQlfbg-hg Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stories4earth Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/storiesforearth/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week's media recommendations come from scientist turned author S.B. Divya and philosophy student turned conceptual artist Jonathon Keats. Their list includes everything from 1960s architecture collectives to a weekly science fiction podcast!

This week's conversation with scientist turned author SB Divya and philosophy student turned conceptual artist Jonathon Keats continues our series on climate futures by beginning with the notion of a thought experiment, and how that is manifested in both Divya’s fiction and Jonathon’s art projects. They discuss the tools each of them uses to invite their audiences to participate with them in optimistic speculation about the future, and how they try to overcome resistance to that journey through entertainment and playfulness. In questioning why we tend to look for definitive answers and discount our own subjective experiences, they lead us to home in on the commonalities between creativity or “the artistic mindset” and the scientific method, which are often presented as opposing each other. And recalling our previous episode with James Paul Gee, if we are able to let go of the assumption of human exceptionalism—for example considering time in terms of the cycle of a river, or the life of a tree—we are able to gain new perspectives on our humanity.A Full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:SB Divya’s work:MachinehoodContingency Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Possible SituationsRuntimeJonathan Keats’ work:Thought ExperimentsPornography for PlantsStrange Skies - Travel documentaries for plantsDIY Universe KitThe Century CameraThe Millennium CameraFables: The Book of the UnknownWork with the Earth Law CenterFlux ExchangeBlack Mirror (Netflix)Stanley MilgramCaesium Standard (for the atomic clock)What Is a Human? By James Paul GeeEpisode #80: James Paul GeeHenry’s course: Science Fiction as Media TheoryBuckminster Fuller: Operating Manual for Spaceship EarthEpisode 84: Sarena Ulibarri and Ed Finn on SolarpunkEpisode 83: Indigenous Voices for Environmental Justice with Candis Callison & Julian Brave NoiseCatShare your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com.Music:Koyaanisqatsi - reverse ( ISTAQSINAAYOK ) (from the original by Philip Glass)“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Aleks Krotoski explores the power of toys and play in shaping our technological future. Apple's Tim Cook has said he began working on the smartwatch aged 5 after seeing the cartoon character Dick Tracy's wristwatch two way radio. So how much of our technological present has been prescribed by future visions of the past? Clearly many innovators imagination's get fired up by childhood experiences but do they end up pursuing technologies that don't actually solve the problems we're facing? Or worse still, do they lock coming generations into futures where many key decisions have already been made and they'll end up having to deal with them? Look at climate change. Aleks explores these ideas with Steven Johnson author of Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World, Jonathon Keats experimental philosopher and founder and curator of The Museum of Future History and Valentina Boretti; a researcher who has been looking at how toys were used to shape the children that would create China's industrial miracle. Producer: Peter McManus

In 1800 a 12-year-old boy emerged from a forest in southern France, where he had apparently lived alone for seven years. His case was taken up by a young Paris doctor who set out to see if the boy could be civilized. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll explore the strange, sad story of Victor of Aveyron and the mysteries of child development. We'll also consider the nature of art and puzzle over the relationship between salmon and trees. Intro: Reading Luc Étienne's expressions forward and backward produces sentences in different languages. In 1883 John Maguire invented a raincoat that wouldn't make your legs wet. Sources for our feature on Victor of Aveyron: Harlan Lane, The Wild Boy of Aveyron, 1976. Geoff Rolls, Classic Case Studies in Psychology, 2010. Julia V. Douthwaite, The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment, 2002. Adriana S. Benzaquén, Encounters With Wild Children: Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature, 2006. Patrick McDonagh, Idiocy: A Cultural History, 2008. Richard M. Silberstein and Helen Irwin, "Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard and the Savage of Aveyron: An Unsolved Diagnostic Problem in Child Psychiatry," Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry 1:2 (1962), 314-322. Murray K. Simpson, "From Savage to Citizen: Education, Colonialism and Idiocy," British Journal of Sociology of Education 28:5 (September 2007), 561-574. Annemieke1 van Drenth, "Sensorial Experiences and Childhood: Nineteenth-Century Care for Children With Idiocy," Paedagogica Historica 51:5 (October 2015), 560-578. Raf Vanderstraeten and Gert Biesta, "How Is Education Possible? Pragmatism, Communication and the Social Organisation of Education," British Journal of Educational Studies 54:2 (June 2006), 160-174. Patrick McDonagh, "The Mute's Voice: The Dramatic Transformations of the Mute and Deaf-Mute in Early-Nineteenth-Century France," Criticism 55:4 (Fall 2013), 655-675. Nicole Simon, "Kaspar Hauser's Recovery and Autopsy: A Perspective on Neurological and Sociological Requirements for Language Development," Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia 8:2 (1978), 209-217. Andrey Vyshedskiy, Rita Dunn, and Shreyas Mahapatra, "Linguistically Deprived Children: Meta-Analysis of Published Research Underlines the Importance of Early Syntactic Language Use for Normal Brain Development," RIO, Aug. 31, 2017, 846-857. Nancy Yousef, "Savage or Solitary?: The Wild Child and Rousseau's Man of Nature," Journal of the History of Ideas 62:2 (April 2001), 245-263. Kenneth Kidd, "Bruno Bettelheim and the Psychoanalytic Feral Tale," American Imago 62:1 (Spring 2005), 75-99. Roger Shattuck, "The Wild Boy of Aveyron," New York Times, May 16, 1976. Paul Sieveking, "Savage Behaviour: Children Who Really Are Running Wild," Sunday Telegraph, March 3, 2002, 37. Listener mail: Wikipedia, "Marcel Duchamp" (accessed May 29, 2019). Wikipedia, "Fountain (Duchamp)" (accessed May 29, 2019). "Art Term: Readymade," Tate (accessed May 29, 2019). "Marcel Duchamp: Fountain, 1917, Replica 1964," Tate (accessed May 29, 2019). "Duchamp's Urinal Tops Art Survey," BBC News, Dec. 1, 2004. Jonathon Keats, "See Why This Urinal Was the Leading Artwork of the 20th Century (But Is Still Underappreciated)," Forbes, Nov. 8, 2017. Wikipedia, "Andy Warhol" (accessed May 30, 2019). "Lesson: Brillo: Is It Art?", Andy Warhol Museum (accessed June 1, 2019). Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Brillo Boxes, Andy Warhol, American, 1928-1987" (accessed June 1, 2019). Wikipedia, "Vocaloid" (accessed June 1, 2019). Mark Jenkins, "This Singer Is Part Hologram, Part Avatar, and Might Be the Pop Star of the Future," Washington Post, July 5, 2018. Hatsune Miku, "World Is Mine - Live HD," June 9, 2011. "Lucky Orb feat. Hatsune Miku," May 6, 2019. James Vincent, "This AI-Generated Joe Rogan Fake Has to Be Heard to Be Believed," The Verge, May 17, 2019 (contains explicit language). This week's lateral thinking puzzle was devised by Sharon. Here's a corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Philosopher/Conceptual Artist Jonathon Keats talks to the Sierra Nevada College - MFA students during their Sagehen visit, 8/7/18.

Let’s be honest, conceptual art is polarizing. Sometimes intentionally so. We explore this and more in a wide-ranging and fascinating chat with self-proclaimed Experimental Philosopher, Jonathon Keats. From his early childhood days selling rocks for a penny to large-scale thought experiments commissioned by prestigious institutions, his career is nothing if not unique. As described in the pages of Wired magazine by science fiction author Bruce Sterling, “the guy is tireless.”

A conceptual artist and experimental philosopher, Jonathon Keats' work has included personalizing the metric system, copyrighting his own mind, applying general relativity to time management, and attempting to genetically engineer God. Recently he opened the shutter on his first millennium-long photograph. Co-sponsored by The ZERO1 Art & Technology Network. From April 02015.

Experimental philosopher and artist Jonathon Keats joins Heather Ross to chats about his early days as a future Talmudic scholar and his present day as an experimental philosopher, or practitioner of purposeful purposelessness. Keats describes his latest project, slated for Fall 2017 installation at the Arizona State University Art Gallery, which imagines the future of democracy as a random number generator and philosophical toy. Show Notes •Emerge Festival at ASU: http://emerge.asu.edu/ •Jonathon Keats on BigThink: http://bigthink.com/experts/jonathonkeats •Jonathon Keats on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathonkeats/#570fb5d97e22 •What If the Majority Freely Votes for Tyranny? http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0327/p20s01-bogn.html

In 1836, Indians abducted a 9-year-old girl from her home in East Texas. She made a new life among the Comanche, with a husband and three children. Then, after 24 years, the whites abducted her back again. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, caught up in a war between two societies. We'll also analyze a forger's motives and puzzle over why a crowd won't help a dying woman. Intro: Mathematician Ernst Straus invented a shape in which a ball might bounce forever without finding a hole. In 1874 a Massachusetts composer set the American constitution to music. Sources for our feature on Cynthia Ann Parker: Margaret Schmidt Hacker, Cynthia Ann Parker: The Life and the Legend, 1990. Jack K. Selden, Return: The Parker Story, 2006. Jan Reid, "One Who Was Found: The Legend of Cynthia Ann Parker," in Michael L. Collins, ed., Tales of Texoma, 2005. Jo Ella Powell Exley, Frontier Blood, 2001. Jack C. Ramsay Jr., Sunshine on the Prairie, 1990. George U. Hubbard, The Humor and Drama of Early Texas, 2003. Richard Selcer, "The Robe," Wild West 28:5 (February 2016), 60-64. Glen Sample Ely, “Myth, Memory, and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker [review],” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 115:1 (July 2011), 91-92. Gregory Michno, "Nocona's Raid and Cynthia Ann's Recapture," Wild West 23:2 (August 2010), 36-43. Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum, "The 'Battle' at Pease River and the Question of Reliable Sources in the Recapture of Cynthia Ann Parker," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 113:1 (July 2009), 32-52. Anne Dingus, "Cynthia Ann and Quanah Parker," Texas Monthly 27:5 (May 1999), 226. "Cynthia Ann Seized History," Southern Living 25:3 (March 5, 1990), 61. Lawrence T. Jones III, "Cynthia Ann Parker and Pease Ross: The Forgotten Photographs," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 93:3 (January 1990), 379-384. Rupert N. Richardson, "The Death of Nocona and the Recovery of Cynthia Ann Parker," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 46:1 (July 1942), 15-21. Listener mail: Donald MacGillivray, "When Is a Fake Not a Fake? When It's a Genuine Forgery," Guardian, July 1, 2005. Noah Charney, "Why So Many Art Forgers Want to Get Caught," Atlantic, Dec. 22, 2014. Jonathon Keats, "Masterpieces for Everyone? The Case of the Socialist Art Forger Tom Keating," Forbes, Dec. 13, 2012. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Paul Sophocleous, who sent this corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Music or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!  

Nonstop Metropolis, the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts—from linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalists—amplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. We are invited to travel through Manhattan’s playgrounds, from polyglot Queens to many-faceted Brooklyn, and from the resilient Bronx to the mystical kung fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Island. The contributors to this exquisitely designed and gorgeously illustrated volume celebrate New York City’s unique vitality, its incubation of the avant-garde, and its literary history, but they also critique its racial and economic inequality, environmental impact, and erasure of its past. Nonstop Metropolis allows us to excavate New York’s buried layers, to scrutinize its political heft, and to discover the unexpected in one of the most iconic cities in the world. It is both a challenge and homage to how New Yorkers think of their city, and how the world sees this capital of capitalism, culture, immigration, and more. Contributors: Sheerly Avni, Gaiutra Bahadur, Marshall Berman, Joe Boyd, Will Butler, Garnette Cadogan, Thomas J. Campanella, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Teju Cole, Joel Dinerstein, Paul La Farge, Francisco Goldman, Margo Jefferson, Lucy R. Lippard, Barry Lopez, Valeria Luiselli, Suketu Mehta, Emily Raboteau, Molly Roy, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Luc Sante, Heather Smith, Jonathan Tarleton, Astra Taylor, Alexandra T. Vazquez, Christina Zanfagna Interviews with: Valerie Capers, Peter Coyote, Grandmaster Caz, Grand Wizzard Theodore, Melle Mel, RZA ABOUT THE AUTHORS Rebecca Solnit is a prolific writer, and the author of many books including Savage Dreams, Storming the Gates of Paradise, and the best-selling atlases Infinite City and Unfathomable City, all from UC Press. She received the Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography from the North American Cartographic Information Society for her work on the previous atlases. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, New York, Harper's, and the Believer, among many other publications. He is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World. http://joshuajellyschapiro.com/ Reviews "In orienting oneself in this atlas...one is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history’s eye...thoroughly terrific."—Maria Popova Brain Pickings "The editors have assembled a remarkable team of artists, geographers and thinkers...The maps themselves are things of beauty...This is a work that, like its predecessors, isn’t in the business of rosy nostalgia...Nonstop Metropolis is a document of its time, of our time." - Sadie Stein—New York Times "Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro's collection achieves the trifold purpose that all good cartography does — it's beautiful, it inspires real thought about civic planning, and, most of all, it's functional."—The Village Voice "...the New York installment [of the Atlas Trilogy] is eccentric and inspiring, a nimble work of social history told through colorful maps and corresponding essays. Together, Solnit, Jelly-Schapiro and a host of contributors — writers, artists, cartographers and data-crunchers — have come up with dozens of exciting new ways to think about the five boroughs." —San Francisco Chronicle "Nonstop Metropolis is an engaging and enlightening read for anyone who loves New York City, creative scholarship, and top-notch graphic design." —Foreword Reviews "The sum of it all is, like New York itself, overwhelming, alluring and dazzlingly diverse."—Jewish Daily Forward "...the book...contains many beautiful and not-so-beautiful images that document New York’s past and the present, and make tangible the social and cultural diversity of this extraordinary place." —Times Literary Supplement "26 maps of New York that prioritize bachata over Broadway, pho over pizza." —Wired.com One of Publishers Weekly's 20 Big Indie Books of 2016—Publishers Weekly“I am thrilled to have another book-object in this series, as I devoured the San Francisco volume when I was there, and the New Orleans one likewise. Now finally here is one about the town where I live. The format, with the maps, networks, and accompanying stories and histories, is a lovely, nonlinear way of mirroring the almost infinite layers that make up a city. We all have our own mental maps of our cities and the ones we visit—maps that are, like the ones here, historical, musical, temporal, personal, economic, and geographical. The maps in Nonstop Metropolis are a good approximation of how we New Yorkers experience and perceive the city we live in.”—David Byrne “Put your map apps and your GPS away, because none of those high-tech innovations will lead you to the immense satisfaction that this hard-to-put-down book is full of. The unique, clever, and artistic maps give you the who, what, when, and, most importantly, where of loads of unusual and little-known New York City histories. As a New York City native I finally have all the maps I need to the treasures and secrets of my hometown.”—Fab 5 Freddy “A new way to think about the cultural and political life of cities.”—Randy Kennedy, New York Times “Solnit, well known for her writing on politics, art and feminism, has turned her attention to New York City’s complexities in Nonstop Metropolis, the third of her trilogy of atlases and accompanying exhibitions.”—Alex Rayner, The Guardian Selected praise for Infinite City and Unfathomable City “A thought-inducing collection of maps that will challenge your view of what atlases can be.”—Kevin Winter, San Francisco/Sacramento/Portland Book Review “A deeply illuminating assemblage of maps and essays.”—Lynell George, Chicago Tribune “Inventive and affectionate.”—Lise Funderburg, New York Times Book Review “Brilliantly disorients our native sense of place.”—Jonathon Keats, San Francisco Magazine “With Unfathomable City, Solnit and Snedeker have produced an idiosyncratic, luminous tribute to the greatest human creation defined by its audience participants: the city itself.”—Daniel Brook, New York Times

Featured Book: The Big Picture, by Sean Carroll. Do our lives have any significance in a universe of impersonal particles and forces and physical laws? That’s a big question – but a physicist with an eye on the big picture takes a shot at answering them. And on the nightstand: You Belong to the Universe, by Jonathon Keats; and Time Travel, by James Gleick.

"Experimental philosopher" and science writer Jonathon Keats, who famously created pornography for plants and sold real estate in the alternate dimensions proposed by string theory, believes that we "need to ascend to the meta level" to find creative ways of reopening closed conversations. His new book You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future, explores the myth and the relevance of a self-mythologizing sometime genius, sometime crackpot whose vast imagination holds some keys to solving the massive problems we now face as a species.  On this week's episode of Think Again–a Big Think Podcast, Jonathon and host Jason Gots discuss social taboos, Fuller's legacy, the "mediated" nature of contemporary life, the power of comedy in society, and so much more.  Surprise discussion clips in this episode: Jim Gaffigan on political correctness in comedy, Dan Savage on sex education, and Mary Roach on diharrhea in the armed forces.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Holland Cotter discusses four new books and the contemporary art scene; Alexandra Alter has notes from the publishing world; Jonathon Keats talks about art theft and forgeries; questions from readers; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

Jonathon Keats is still searching for the perfect job title. In the meantime he's making do with “experimental philosopher,” though he's also been called a conceptual artist and a poet of ideas. His chosen form is the Gedankenexperiment, brought to life and acted out. In his decade-plus career he has “genetically engineered God,” made porn movies for plants, built a church to science and hustled extra-dimensional real estate. His latest venture: a consulting firm that trains bacteria for careers in corporate management. Microbial Associates has its public launch event at Modernism Gallery in San Francisco on October 21st. Funny yes, but it's not all a big joke. For all the funning there's a serious intent at the heart of Jonathon's antics. By taking ideas to unreal extremes, Jonathon aims to explore the very real implications of our beliefs.

Just what is a documentary photograph? Like most of you listening to this podcast, I have my own definition of what it is, but I've never delved much deeper than my own ideas and preconceptions. I had a sense of what worked for me and that was enough. That's a dangerous road, don't you agree? It's dangerous because it brings with it the risk of having a blinkered vision. Blinkered vision is something we cannot afford as documentary photographers. In this episode of the podcast, I have the privilege of speaking with Jonathon Keats. Jonathon is a deep thinker, an artist and and philosopher, a photographer too. He writes for Forbes and reached out to me via email after episode 10 of the podcast aired. In his email, he highlighted a recent Forbes article in which he discusses the work of Bernice Abbott, in particular her photographs illustrating scientific concepts through photography, and wondered whether they were documentary. A simple question. But a complicated answer. Pondering Jonathon's question made me realize that while I have my own definition of documentary photography, it wasn't perhaps deep or nuanced enough. It was time to explore the concept in a conversation. And with whom better than Jonathon himself?

Colin Marshall sits down somewhere in between San Francisco's Chinatown, Nob Hill, and Russian Hill with conceptual artist, experimental philosopher, and writer Jonathon Keats, author of the upcoming book Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age. They discuss his own role as, above all, a fake; his attempt to epigenetically clone such celebrities as Lady Gaga, Michael Phelps, and Barack Obama; Forged, forgery, pursuit of simulacra, and Wim Wenders' Notebook on Cities and Clothes; content's ongoing release from form, and how it sends out the concept of forgery even as it brings it back in; the enthusiastically forged paintings of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, and Thomas Kinkade's massively replicated, "master highlighted" images; authenticity as it relates to spaghetti and meatballs; San Francisco's intriguing tension between the claims of its own authenticity and its vision of itself as an experimental utopia — or, in his words, its simultaneous tendencies toward the "incredibly smug" and "very insecure"; why Europeans love San Francisco, and whether that has anything to do with the city's ultimate derivation from their own; his thought experiments' usefulness as "curiosity amplifiers," generating larger questions than the ones they came from; the difference between doing experimental philosophy in San Francisco and in other countries, like Italy; and the exhilarating American freedom that also numbs.

See the world through fresh eyes with conceptual artist Jonathon Keats as he attempts to look for God in a Petrie dish. Original air date: March 2005.

This Educator Guide corresponds with the "Jonathon Keats: Conceptual Artist" video from KQED Spark.

Colin Marshall talks to conceptual artist and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats. In addition to his well-known projects like selling his thoughts, creating pornography for plants, and genetically engineering god, Keats writes about language for Wired magazine. His new book, Virtual Words: Language from the Edge of Science and Technology, collects his examinations of neologisms both failed and successful from our age, including qubit, crowdsourcing and bacn.

Experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats stated that since plants are rooted and cannot travel he thought that they would like to see videos of other locations.

See the world through fresh eyes with conceptual artist Jonathon Keats as he attempts to look for God in a Petrie dish. Original air date: March 2005.