Jonathon Keats is an experimental philosopher, artist, and writer whose transdisciplinary projects explore all aspects of society, adapting methods from the sciences and the humanities. He is the author of six books on subjects ranging from science and technology to art and design – most recently You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future, published by Oxford University Press – and is the author of a monthly online arts column for Forbes. He is a research associate at the University of Arizona’s College of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico City’s UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies, a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Biofrontiers Institute and San José State University’s CADRE Laboratory for New Media, a lecturer at the University of Zurich’s School for Transdisciplinary Studies, a senior fellow at the Berggruen Institute, a research fellow at the Highland Institute and the Long Now Foundation, an artist research fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, principal philosopher at Earth Law Center, and an artist-in-residence at the SETI Institute and Biosphere 2. He co-directs the Consortium for Climate-Adapted Architectural Heritage at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics. A monograph about his artwork, Thought Experiments, was recently published by Hirmer Verlag. His newest book, A Field Guide to More-Than-Human Governance, is forthcoming from the Berggruen Press in 2026.
BA, Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies, Amherst College, 1994
Publications
You Belong To The Universe: Buckminster Fuller And The Future (Oxford University Press)
Forged: Why Fakes Are The Great Art of Our Age (Oxford University Press) Virtual Words: Language On The Edge Of Science And Technology (Oxford University Press)
The Book Of The Unknown: Tales Of The Thirty-Six (Random House)
