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Jonathon Keats

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. He is currently writing a field guide to more-than-human governance.

Tasting Tomorrow

Can we eat local on a warming planet?

December 26, 2025

A Revolution in Time

Why clocks need to follow the tempo of nature.

April 11, 2024

Toys Are the Future of Philosophy

Playthings shouldn’t confine kids but allow them to ask, What if?

December 9, 2020

Philosophy Is a Public Service

I design thought experiments to provoke dialogue about who and what we want to become.

December 31, 2019

When Driver and Car Share the Same Brain

An artist teams with an automaker to counter driverless cars with neuroscience.

August 21, 2017

Let’s Play War

Could war games replace the real thing?

September 21, 2015

The 315-Year-Old Science Experiment

How counting sunspots unites the past and future of science.

March 4, 2015

20 Ways to See the Light

The meaning of light through history in science, religion, philosophy, and culture.

February 28, 2014

A Lexicon of Light

Since the universe formed, photons have affected everything.

February 28, 2014

Famous for Being Indianapolis

How cities are like Kim Kardashian.

August 29, 2013

When Photographers Are Neuroscientists

Artists who manipulate photos capture the ambiguity—and beauty—of vision itself.

June 10, 2013