ABSTRACT
This chapter presents Immanuel Kant as an astral companion for Buckminster Fuller in light of their thinking about cosmopolitics. Kant's Critique of Practical Reason culminates in what one might call a most 'sublime' account of how human should experience himself both as an articulation between this expanding universe situated within a plurality of worlds, and as part of earthly life with all the responsibilities that this complex web of belongingness entails. The term 'outside' is used designedly by Buckminster Fuller as an essential aspect of his strategy to encourage people to jettison semantic inaccuracies in order to better attune understanding of world to their actual experience. He replacing terms 'up' and 'down' by 'inside' and 'outside'. By so doing he is obliging people to think through spherical nature of planet as experienced by sailors and adopt their 'cosmic viewpoint'. The positivisation of tension was a major aspect of Buckminster Fuller's rethinking of architecture in terms of what he called 'tensegrity'.
