By the Late John Brockman

by John Brockman

A radical, experimental work that challenges the boundaries of poetry, philosophy, and science. First published in 1969, this new and expanded edition of John Brockman’s first book,  By The Late John Brockman,  also includes the full text of  37  (1971), and  Afterwords  (1973). This edition features a new foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-director of the Serpentine Gallery and author of Ways of Curating .

320 pages, Hardcover

First published September 16, 2014

About the author

John Brockman is an American literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature. He established the Edge Foundation, an organization that brings together leading edge thinkers across a broad range of scientific and technical fields.

He is author and editor of several books, including: The Third Culture (1995); The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years (2000); The Next Fifty Years (2002) and The New Humanists (2003).

He has the distinction of being the only person to have been profiled on Page One of the "Science Times" (1997) and the "Arts & Leisure" (1966), both supplements of The New York Times.

Reviews

[mono · Rating 2 out of 5]

α - edge.org founder

Ω - A stroll through a house of mirrors of information, uncertainty, & language by what seems to be a blind fool.

⇝ - Potential books to look into: The Hidden Dimension, The Silent Language, ~Unnameable~, ~Opus Posthumous~, ~ The Literature of Silence~, Modeling of Mind, Computers & Intellegence