Big Ideas
Big Ideas
These are the Big Ideas of the Institute of Not-Knowing. They explore the effects of living in Industrial Society, the Influence it exerts on us, and the power of Wandering - particularly using G.U.I.D.E in New York City - can lead to a better future, a thing we like to call Houses of Fire.
the Institute of Not-Knowing
A publication at the corner of Industrial Society, Influence, and the Unconscious Mind.
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Industrial Society
Mining+Agriculture+Manufacturing+Logistics. Who owns it and what do they want the rest of us to do?
DIG IN
Influence
For help and hinder, by accident and by design there's a sophisticated system of behavioral influences acting upon us, and we must see it.
BLINDERS OFF
Wandering
Wandering is exploring territory using your intuition. It's an antidote for the harms of living in industrial society.
LIVE ON A BIGGER MAP
G.U.I.D.E
Guides need Goodness, Utilization, Information Management, Domain Knowledge, and Eloquence.
LEARN TO G.U.I.D.E
New York City
The great global experiment to find out if everybody in the world can live together in one place. So far, so good.
VISIT NYC
Houses of Fire
A slowly unfurling model for building a better world by learning from the mistakes of the past and present.
GET WARM"Chance furnished me what I need, I am like a man who stumbles along: my foot strikes something. I bend over, and it is exactly what I need."
- James Joyce, Ulysses