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    Laffoley's Odyssey ///// Diagrams of Occult Infinity


    "In 1969, R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), the pre-eminent 20th Century engineer for the United States, and perhaps the World, threw out a very personal challenge. It was in the form of a book entitled Utopia or Oblivion daring the earth to make the choice. Reading now as both a futuristic and nostalgic tract, it appeared in 1969 like a literary barn-burner manifesto of the 1920’s Classical Modernist variety.

    Agreeing with the spirit of his message, I believe that not enough time has elapsed for the world to both absorb and accept the impact of his dare and to transform the soul of it into a completed cultural artifact. We must do it now utilizing whatever means we can. There have been, however, a few groups of Futurists who over the past 32 years have heeded Fuller’s message, and have attempted a convergence of as many aspects of human knowledge as possible within their limits. The goal of our present endeavor is to produce a transdisciplinary world-view which will sustain human existence into a continuous future. This, of course, was the basic message of Fuller’s book. "

    ~ PL, Lecture, "Utopic Space"

    Time travel, Kiesler, absolute life and death, building a tesseract house, the color of breathing... Though I've not read his commentary thoroughly enough to say how well our views correlate, I deeply admire the stunning hyper-complexity and diversity of Paul Laffoley's obsessive diagrams. I strongly advise viewing these works up close (1, 2 ; also see links at bottom).

    * Some may recognize "The Metatron" from the cover of disinformation's Generation Hex *










    { Biography, Gallery, Laffoley's Odyssey, Some Explanations, Catalogue Raisonne }


    "It is said that if the Time Machine really existed, we would already know of it.
    I say it has always been here, and we are beginning to become aware of it."

    ~ Paul Laffoley, "Geochronmechane: The Time Machine from the Earth" (1990)

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    Michael Garrett     Sat, Jan 19, 2008  Permanent link
    The diagrams are fantastic, they could easily be hung in a pop surreal art exhibition and look like they belonged in the collection. Thanks for pointing them out, I thoroughly enjoyed them.
     
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