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Person Index — The Possible Book

Pages are printed book pages; n. means note. References identifies bibliography mentions. PDF pages are labelled explicitly.

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Names are alphabetized surname first. Verified full names are used where supported; uncertain expansions remain as recorded. Mythic figures and groups are labelled. Translation credits, hidden citation contributors and excluded private identities are not included. Independent author citations and substantive mentions remain eligible.

A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · R · S · T · V · W · Y · Z

A

Abramsky, Samson

PB146, 150, 169, 174

Addis, Michael

PB207

Agamben, Giorgio

PB191, 205

Aires, Susana

PB87

Arendt, Hannah

PB56, 140

Asimov, Isaac

PB62, 63, 64, 65

B

Bach, Johann Sebastian

PB87

Bachelard, Gaston

PB198, 199, 205

Ban, Shigeru

PB143

Barad, Karen

PB206

Barbara (wife of Christian Bruck)

PB21, 25

Baudrillard, Jean

PB191

Baur, Christian

PB206

Bell, John Stewart

PB153, 154, 170, 173

Bergson, Henri

PB28, 199, 207

Bleakley, Alan

PB205

Bohm, David

PB56

Bohr, Niels

PB56, 80, 136, PDF 147

Bollas, Christopher

PB115, 124

Borges, Jorge Luis

PB87, 88, 88 n. 8, 136

Breton, André

PBPDF 133, 207

Bruck, Chris

PBPDF 2, PDF 5, 204

Bruck, Christian

PB20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 112, 206

Bruck, Gregor

PB20, 22

C

Cantor, Georg

PB147, 157, 164, 182, 183, 185

Carlin, George

PB5

Cioran, Emil

PB6 n. 2

Clark, Stephen

PB146

Coecke, Bob

PB146, 150, 153, 154, 169, 170, 174

Colbert, Gregory

PBPDF 2, 143, 187, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207

Copernicus, Nicolaus

PB90

Cornell, Joseph

PBPDF 21, 206

Courser, Kenny

PB146, 152, 180, 181

Cramer, John G.

PB168, 169, 174

Cranach, Lucas

PB20, 21, 22, 24, 206

Cranach, Lucas the Younger

PB22, 24, 206

D

da Costa, Newton

PB147, 175

Dalí, Salvador

PBPDF 18, 206

Damasio, Antonio

PB14, 15, 193

de Broglie, Louis

PB56

de Jonge, Karin

PB207

de Saint Phalle, Niki

PB206, 207

Deleuze, Gilles

PB204, 205

Derrida, Jacques

PB192, 193, 202, 205

Descartes, René

PB4, 193

Duke Johann Friedrich Ii

PB23, 24

E

Ehresmann, Andrée C.

PB146, 150, 151, 161

Einstein, Albert

PB90

Escher, Maurits Cornelis

PB87

Evaristti, Marco

PB61, 207

Everett, Hugh

PB56

F

Fernández, Macedonio

PBPDF 6, 87, 136

Fields, W.C.

PB4

Flusser, Vilém

PB112

Fong, Brendan

PB146, 152, 180, 181

French, Steven

PB175

Freud, Sigmund

PB59, 85, 190, 205

Fukuyama, Francis

PB141

Fulton, Alice

PBPDF 20, 206

G

Gambini, Roberto

PB119

Gernsback, Hugo

PB62

Gibson, James J.

PB15

Gödel, Kurt

PB87, 147, 157, 164, 182, 183, 185

Görnitz, Thomas

PB57

Grothendieck, A.

PB147, 168

H

Halsman, Philippe

PBPDF 11, 206

Haraway, Donna

PB156

Hawken, Paul

PB205

Hawking, Stephen

PB136

Hazen, Robert

PB148

Heidegger, Martin

PB28, 207

Heisenberg, Werner

PB57, 90

Heraclitus

PB28, PDF 35, 206

Herbert, Frank

PB62

Hertog, Thomas

PB136

Hesse, Hermann

PB112

Hoffmeyer, Jesper

PB205

Hofstadter, Douglas

PB87

Horace

PB112

Horney, Karen

PB59

Hulten, Pontus

PB207

I

Ikemoto, Takashi

PB207

Irrgang, Bernhard

PB205

J

Jabur, Camila

PB119

Jamiołkowski, A.

PB173

Johnson, Alvin

PB56

Johnson, Mark

PB56

Jonas, Hans

PB56

Jung, Carl Gustav

PBPDF 19, 59, 60, 86, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122; References: 124

K

Kamo, no Chōmei

PB41, 41 n. 6

Kan’ami, Kiyoutsugu

PB8, 9

Kastner, Ruth E.

PB57, 58, 80, 82, 137, PDF 143, 168, 169, 170, 174, 187

Kelly, Gregory Maxwell

PB170

Kissinger, Aleks

PB169, 174

Komachi, Ono no

PB9

Kostochka, Tanya

PB207

Kruger, Barbara

PB4, PDF 8, PDF 15, 206

Kuhn, Franz

PB88

L

Lacan, Jacques

PB85, 194, 198, 200

Lack, Stephen

PB175, 176, 177, 181

Lakoff, George

PB15, 16, 17, 137

Lal, Raymond

PB170, 174

Langer, Susanne K.

PB205

Laplaza, M. L.

PB170

Lautréamont, Comte de (nom de plume; real name: Isidore Ducasse)

PB199

Lawvere, F. William

PB147, 154, 157, 164, 182, 184, 185

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

PB175, 181

Leroi-Gourhan, André

PB192, 195, 205

Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph

PB6, 6 n. 1

Liu, Cixin

PB62

Lock, Charles

PB205

Longo, Giuseppe

PB15

Luther, Martin

PB20, 22

M

Mac Lane, Saunders

PB179, 181

Machado, Antonio

PBPDF 194, 207

MacIntyre, Alasdair

PB201, 205

Maldacena, Juan

PB136

Malraux, André

PB204

Maroni, Amnéris

PB118, 119, 121, 124

Marty, Emilia

PB121, 124

Maturana, Humberto

PB15

Maudlin, Tim

PB56

Melanchthon

PB20, 22

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice

PB4, 99, 196, 205

Miller, Dennis

PB5

Milosz, Oscar

PB205

Moerdijk, Ieke

PB179, 181

Monnet, Jean

PB142

Montévil, Maël

PB15

Monty Python (comedy group)

PB4

Morise, Max

PBPDF 133, 207

Morton, Timothy

PB2, 142

N

Narayanan, Srini

PB15, 16, 137

Neiman, Susan

PB140

Nietzsche, Friedrich

PB4, 202

Noll, Alexandre

PBPDF 133, 207

Nottale, Laurent

PB57

Næss, Arne

PB201, 202, 205

O

Onfray, Michel

PB5

O’Riordan, Tim

PB205

P

Pereira, Gómez

PB4

Péri, Noël

PB9

Pessoa, Fernando

PB191

Piketty, Thomas

PB140, 207

Plato

PB20, 21

Prigogine, Ilya

PB1

Protevi, John

PB205

R

Rodin, Auguste

PBPDF 27, 206

Rosen, Robert

PB15, 16, 17

Rosický, J.

PB168

Rovelli, Carlo

PB56

Russell, Bertrand

PB147, 157, 164, 182, 183

S

Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh

PB146, 153

Santayana, George

PB199

Schapira, Pierre

PB168

Schrödinger, Erwin

PB55, 58

Schuman, Robert

PB142

Selinger, Peter

PB169, 170, 171, 174

Shakespeare, William

PB8, 9

Simondon, Gilbert

PB15, 16, 17, 57, 80, 81, 82, 114, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 124, 187

Singer, Peter

PB200

Skak, Eva Cecilie

PBPDF 147, 207

Smaller, Barbara

PB207

Smith, Cordwainer / Linebarger, Paul

PB62

Sobociński, Pawel

PB175, 176, 177, 181

Solkær, Søren

PB207

Sontag, Susan

PB6, 6 n. 2

Spencer-Brown, George

PB81

Spinoza, Baruch

PB193, 194, 199, 202

Steichen, Edward

PBPDF 27, 206

Stengers, Isabelle

PB119, 120, 124

Stiegler, Bernard

PB192

Stryk, Lucien

PB207

T

Taibbi, Matt

PB141

Takahashi, Shinkichi

PBPDF 86, PDF 119, 207

Tarde, Gabriel

PB5

Tarski, Alfred

PB147, 157, 164, 182, 183, 185

Thomas, Antoine Léonard

PB4

Tinguely, Jean

PB28, PDF 35, 206, 207

Tononi, Giulio

PB16

Tornatore, Giuseppe

PB59

Trémont, Auguste

PB29, 115

Turing, Alan

PB147, 157, 164, 182, 183, 185

V

Valéry, Paul

PB5

Varela, Francisco

PB15, 17

Verdier, J. L.

PB168

von Foerster, Heinz

PB5

von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

PB26

von Grumbach, Wilhelm

PB23

von Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich

PB57

W

Weber, Andreas

PB15, 16, 17

White, Simon D. M.

PB74

Whitehead, Alfred North

PB15, 17, 81

Wilkins, John

PB88 n. 8

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

PB89

Wong, Michael

PB137, 148

Y

Yamabe, no Akahito

PB41, 41 n. 4

Yanofsky, Noson S.

PB185

Z

Zeami, Motokiyo

PB8, 9, 41, 41 n. 3, 53