BUCKYVERSE

IMP-17 Referenced-Figures Batch 2 Implementation Plan

For agentic workers: REQUIRED SUB-SKILL: Use superpowers:executing-plans to implement this plan task-by-task. Steps use checkbox (- [ ]) syntax for tracking.

Goal: Create 15 entity-person pages for the strongest lesser-mentioned figures referenced in the corpus, extending the IMP-16 Fuller relationship map.

Architecture: Reuse the IMP-16 page model verbatim (entity-person, relationship: field + relationship-<type> tag, ## Relationship to Fuller with a prose r-buckminster-fuller body link, See Also holding only reciprocated figure↔work/figure↔person links). Add all 15 to fuller-people.md (77→92) and update indexes.

Tech Stack: Markdown pages under .wiki/wiki/topics/, Python for registry/index regeneration and reciprocity verification.

Page template (every page follows this exactly)

---
title: "<Name>"
category: topic
sources:
  - <source anchor from spec table>          # OR omit sources and use `compiled-from: conversation`
created: 2026-07-01
updated: 2026-07-01
verified: 2026-07-01
relationship: <type>
tags: [entity-person, relationship-<type>, <about-buckminster-fuller|fuller-adjacent>, <1-2 topic tags>]
aliases: ["<Name>"]
confidence: <medium|low>
volatility: cold
compiled-from: sources                        # OR `conversation` when no resolvable anchor
summary: "<one-sentence identity + tie to Fuller>"
---

# <Name>

> <One-line identity — dates + what they're known for>.

<Short reworded description paragraph — who they are, grounded, no fabrication.>

## Relationship to Fuller

**Relationship: <type>.** <Explicit relationship narrative, linking [[r-buckminster-fuller|R. Buckminster Fuller]] in prose. Ground in the corpus mention; do not invent specifics.>

## See Also

- [[<slug>|<Name>]] ([<Name>](<slug>.md)) — <why related>
  <one or more; see reciprocity map>

## Sources

- [<label>](<source anchor>) — <what it documents>
  <OR, when compiled-from: conversation, drop this and note provenance in the section>

Notes:

Per-figure capsules (facts to ground each page — no fabrication beyond these)

  1. werner-erhard — American founder of est (Erhard Seminars Training) and The Hunger Project (1977). relationship: collaborator. Fuller was closely allied with The Hunger Project and est's orbit, appearing on its platforms; Erhard drew on Fuller's "world works for everyone" framing. Tag about-buckminster-fuller. See Also: est. confidence medium.
  2. robert-smithson — American land/earthwork artist (1938–1973), Spiral Jetty. relationship: contemporary. Engaged the era's structure/entropy debates against Fuller's synergetic optimism; grouped with Fuller's art-world context. Tag fuller-adjacent. See Also: we-are-all-astronauts, kenneth-snelson. confidence low.
  3. isaac-newton — English physicist/mathematician (1642–1727). relationship: forebear. Fuller's recurring foil — "Newton was a sleeper, Einstein was awake" — contrasting Newtonian statics with his own dynamic, tensional universe. Tag about-buckminster-fuller. See Also: albert-einstein, josiah-willard-gibbs, nikola-tesla. confidence medium.
  4. alfred-north-whitehead — British mathematician/philosopher (1861–1947), process philosophy, Principia Mathematica (with Russell). relationship: influence-on-fuller. His process/organism view and "comprehensive" habit of mind informed Fuller's comprehensivist stance (the-comprehensive-man). Tag about-buckminster-fuller. See Also: the-comprehensive-man, lewis-mumford, immanuel-kant. confidence medium.
  5. charles-darwin — English naturalist (1809–1882), evolution by natural selection. relationship: forebear. Fuller repeatedly positioned his design-science against passive Darwinian adaptation, arguing humans can consciously redesign their environment. Tag fuller-adjacent. See Also: lewis-mumford, robert-sapolsky. confidence medium.
  6. johannes-kepler — German astronomer/mathematician (1571–1630), planetary laws, polyhedral cosmology. relationship: forebear. Part of the polyhedral-geometry lineage Fuller drew on; the Platonic-solid packing and quasi-symmetry threads (penrose/quasicrystal context). Tag fuller-adjacent. See Also: regular-polytopes, wizard-of-the-dome. confidence medium.
  7. bertrand-russell — British philosopher/logician (1872–1970). relationship: contemporary. Parallel public intellectual; the corpus pairs Russell and Fuller on working less / technological abundance. Tag fuller-adjacent. See Also: everything-i-know, robert-anton-wilson, noam-chomsky. confidence medium.
  8. andy-warhol — American Pop artist (1928–1987). relationship: contemporary. Silvered-portrait era contemporary; the corpus notes Noguchi's chrome Fuller bust predating Warhol's silver aesthetic. Tag fuller-adjacent. See Also: isamu-noguchi, we-are-all-astronauts, jasper-johns. confidence low.
  9. nikola-tesla — Serbian-American inventor/engineer (1856–1943). relationship: forebear. An admired inventor-predecessor whose electromagnetic and wireless-energy vision prefigures the technology-abundance strand around Fuller (Integratron/dome-era mentions). Tag fuller-adjacent. See Also: isaac-newton. confidence low.
  10. immanuel-kant — German Enlightenment philosopher (1724–1804). relationship: forebear. Fuller engaged Kantian epistemology (a priori/a posteriori, the categories) in framing experience, geometry, and mind. Tag fuller-adjacent. See Also: alfred-north-whitehead. confidence low.
  11. noam-chomsky — American linguist and public intellectual (b. 1928). relationship: contemporary. Parallel dissident intellectual of Fuller's later era; appears alongside Russell/Fuller in the corpus's abundance/work discourse. Tag fuller-adjacent. See Also: everything-i-know, bertrand-russell. confidence low.
  12. susan-sontag — American essayist/critic (1933–2004). relationship: contemporary. Contemporary cultural critic within Fuller's art-and-ideas milieu (we-are-all-astronauts context). Tag fuller-adjacent. See Also: we-are-all-astronauts. confidence low.
  13. jasper-johns — American painter (b. 1930), flags/targets. relationship: contemporary. Post-war art contemporary in Fuller's circle-adjacent art world; grouped in the we-are-all-astronauts survey. Tag fuller-adjacent. See Also: we-are-all-astronauts, andy-warhol. confidence low.
  14. jonas-salk — American virologist (1914–1995), polio vaccine, founder of the Salk Institute. relationship: contemporary. Mutual admiration; Salk's "biophilosophy" / survival-of-the-wisest resonates with Fuller's ephemeralization and comprehensive-design optimism. Tag about-buckminster-fuller. See Also: no-more-secondhand-god, robert-sapolsky. confidence low.
  15. walther-bauersfeld — German engineer (1879–1959) at Carl Zeiss. relationship: forebear. Designed and built the first geodesic dome — the Zeiss planetarium in Jena, 1922–1926 — decades before Fuller's patent; the central dome-priority story. Tag about-buckminster-fuller. See Also: wizard-of-the-dome, buckminster-fuller-a-bibliographical-biography. confidence low.

Each existing topic below gets a ## See Also bullet linking back to the new figure(s):

New↔new See Also pairs are written into both pages in Tasks 1–3 (isaac-newton↔nikola-tesla, alfred-north-whitehead↔immanuel-kant, bertrand-russell↔noam-chomsky, andy-warhol↔jasper-johns).

Task 1: Write the 6 forebear pages

Files: Create wiki/topics/{isaac-newton,charles-darwin,johannes-kepler,nikola-tesla,immanuel-kant,walther-bauersfeld}.md

Task 2: Write the 7 contemporary pages

Files: Create wiki/topics/{robert-smithson,bertrand-russell,andy-warhol,noam-chomsky,susan-sontag,jasper-johns,jonas-salk}.md

Task 3: Write the collaborator + influence pages

Files: Create wiki/topics/{werner-erhard,alfred-north-whitehead}.md

Files: Modify the 15 existing topic pages in the reciprocity map.

import re, glob, os
def links(f):
    t=open(f,encoding="utf-8").read()
    sa=t.split("## See Also",1)
    if len(sa)<2: return set()
    body=sa[1].split("\n## ",1)[0]
    return set(re.findall(r'\[\[([a-z0-9-]+)\|', body))
topics={os.path.basename(f)[:-3]:f for f in glob.glob("wiki/topics/*.md")}
bad=[]
NEW={"isaac-newton","charles-darwin","johannes-kepler","nikola-tesla","immanuel-kant","walther-bauersfeld","robert-smithson","bertrand-russell","andy-warhol","noam-chomsky","susan-sontag","jasper-johns","jonas-salk","werner-erhard","alfred-north-whitehead"}
for slug in NEW:
    for tgt in links(topics[slug]):
        if tgt=="r-buckminster-fuller": continue
        if tgt not in topics: bad.append((slug,tgt,"MISSING TARGET")); continue
        if slug not in links(topics[tgt]): bad.append((slug,tgt,"NO BACKLINK"))
print("asymmetric:", bad or "none")

Task 5: Regenerate registry + indexes + log

Files: Modify wiki/references/fuller-people.md, wiki/topics/_index.md, _index.md, log.md.

Task 6: Lint / verify

import re, glob, os
VOCAB={"collaborator","influence-on-fuller","influenced-by-fuller","friend","family","contemporary","rival-critic","forebear","chronicler"}
NEW=["isaac-newton","charles-darwin","johannes-kepler","nikola-tesla","immanuel-kant","walther-bauersfeld","robert-smithson","bertrand-russell","andy-warhol","noam-chomsky","susan-sontag","jasper-johns","jonas-salk","werner-erhard","alfred-north-whitehead"]
prob=[]
for s in NEW:
    f=f"wiki/topics/{s}.md"; t=open(f,encoding="utf-8").read()
    m=re.search(r'^relationship:\s*(\S+)',t,re.M)
    if not m or m.group(1) not in VOCAB: prob.append((s,"bad relationship"))
    elif f"relationship-{m.group(1)}" not in t: prob.append((s,"tag missing"))
    if "## Relationship to Fuller" not in t: prob.append((s,"no relationship section"))
    if "r-buckminster-fuller" not in t: prob.append((s,"no Fuller body link"))
    if not re.search(r'compiled-from:\s*conversation',t):
        srcs=re.findall(r'^\s*-\s*(\.\./\.\./raw/\S+)',t,re.M)
        for sr in srcs:
            if not os.path.exists(os.path.join("wiki/topics",sr)): prob.append((s,f"src missing {sr}"))
reg=open("wiki/references/fuller-people.md",encoding="utf-8").read()
regcount=len(re.findall(r'\]\(\.\./topics/[a-z0-9-]+\.md\)',reg))
print("problems:", prob or "none")
print("registry entries:", regcount, "(expect 92)")

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