“It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.” Quote by Donna Karan
“That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.” WayDoeSeemsDespairProductive Author:Jonathon Keats
“Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sorts of changes we can make.” WayHappensOptimisticEngineeringIrresponsibleBeing Optimistic Author:Jonathon Keats
“It isn't a matter of hope. It's a matter of - between the options of trying nothing and trying something, let's try something but let's also be very thoughtful about what that something is.” TryingMatterThoughtfulTrying SomethingVery Thoughtful Author:Jonathon Keats
“I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.” TermDesignScientistPhilosopherComprehensiveAmbiguous Author:Jonathon Keats
“I don't really know what that job [experimental philosopher] entails.” KnowsJobsPhilosopher Author:Jonathon Keats
“I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with very few people about very few things in very narrow terms and yet still believed (and still believe today) that there was something that I was getting myself involved in when I said I wanted to study philosophy.” PeopleWayBelieveSaidStillsPhilosophyFactsTodayWantedSchoolTermInterestingStudyInvolvedConversationVery InterestingDisgruntledInteresting Conversation Author:Jonathon Keats
“I set my life since then attempting to figure out how to do that, basically how to have a sort of public discourse in which anything and everything are open to conversation and in which the thought experiment is a means by which to posit all manner of different realities, potential futures.” MeanDifferentRealityFiguresConversationExperimentsDiscourseAttemptingAnything And EverythingPublic DiscourseDifferent Realities Author:Jonathon Keats
“My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to imagine alternate worlds, to writing about [Buckminster] Fuller who was the ultimate world man creating all sorts of alternate worlds and believing that they were imminent to my own work of - for instance, a project that I've been working on for some year and a half, two years now that continues to evolve has been what I call Deep Time Photography.” MenWorldWritingTryingYearsBelieveHas BeensTwoBookMy OwnHalfFictionImagineProjectsCreatingPhotographyUltimateInstanceEvolveRangeTwo YearsFablesFiction WritingWriting FictionEclecticBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms, because anything more complicated is more likely to break down in one way or another. It's a pinhole camera that lets in very low light and instead of exposing film, which is going to spoil within a matter of days or weeks, I'm using ordinary black paper.” WayYearsMatterLightFilmBlackTermBreakWeekPaperLowsOrdinaryHundredCamerasComplicatedOne WayBreaking DownSimplestExposureSpoilExposing Author:Jonathon Keats
“We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.” WellsAbleTechnology Author:Jonathon Keats