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The word 'tensegrity' is an invention: a contraction of 'tensional integrity.' Tensegrity describes a structural-relationship principle in which structural shape is guarenteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviors of the system and not by the discontinuous and exclusively local compressional member behaviors. Tensegrity provides the ability to yield increasingly without ultimately breaking or coming asunder
- Buckminster Fuller, Tensegrity
i have an straw/paperclip/elastic band version of that sculpture on my desk.
one of my favourite parts of the essay is when Bucky relates the concept of tensegrity to the transformative patternings of the universe, and starts talking about the precessional nature of things: associative-disassociative motion reciprocity.
this personal letter from Bucky is especially great.
"guarenteed" should read "guaranteed"
sorry, i'm a dirty pedant
and a stickler for grammargh
but i like made up words
eg
cylence
(n) the state of being when all sound except that of your computer becomes background noise.
[sic]
