My aim in writing 'Spelling Synergetics' is to communicate one of the core lessons from David Abram's book, The Spell of the Sensuous. What I learned is that the phonetic alphabet is a technology. The ABCs we learned as children originated from a primordial split between humans and the more-than-human world of Nature. Marshall McLuhan analyzed the ancient paradigm shift of this technology in terms of visual and acoustic space. In Part 1 , I claimed that there is a phoneti

Buckminster Fuller coined the term "tensegrity" to describe a novel building technique discovered by Kenneth Snelson and Karlis Johansons.

I had a sudden realization about halfway through David Abram's magnificent book, The Spell of the Sensuous   (1997). Why didn't anyone teach me that the alphabet is a technology ? I memorized the ABCs so early in life that I never seriously questioned the origin of its symbolism. What are these occult letters - nothing but scribbles on paper (and screens) that designate sounds? There is, indeed, a certain magical effect behind written symbols, which is still conveyed in t

Buckminster Fuller saw Synergetics as the common language between the specialized sciences and the Generalized Principles that they discover. What is the historical context from which Synergetics arose and who did Fuller associate with?

The Rhode Island School of Design hosted a Design Science Symposium in September of 2025 called The Geometry of Uncertainty. Syn-U visited the event as well as other key people in the field of Synergetics and Design Science.

The Rhombic Dodecahedron is referred to as the "spheric" by Buckminster Fuller in Synergetics. In this article, we explore the relationship between the Rhombic Dodecahedron, the IVM, and the Vector Equilibrium.