A View from the Bridge of Spaceship Earth
A guidebook by John F. Sase, Ph.D., accompanying readers through Fuller's Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth with reflections that bridge Fuller's mid-century insights to contemporary relevance.
The book
- Author: John F. Sase, Ph.D.
- Full title: A View from The Bridge of Spaceship Earth: Reflections on The Thoughts and Teachings of R. Buckminster Fuller (A Guidebook)
- ISBN: 978-1-5463-9719-9
- Form: interpretive companion/guidebook
Sase situates Fuller's words — first published between the Summer of Love during the escalation of the Vietnam War in 1967 and the Kent State Shootings in 1970 — as just as relevant today as when they first appeared. The book serves as an interpretive companion, making Fuller's dense, visionary prose accessible to a contemporary readership.
Significance
The guidebook belongs to a small genre of Fuller companion texts — works that do not add new Fuller material but aim to make his existing writing legible to audiences who might otherwise find it impenetrable. Its focus on Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth — one of Fuller's most widely read and shortest works — makes it an entry point rather than a deep dive.
See Also
- John F. Sase — the author
- Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth — the Fuller text this guidebook accompanies
- Spaceship Earth — the concept at the heart of both works
Sources
- A View from The Bridge of Spaceship Earth (source reference) — Zotero record