Influences
This list will undoubtedly change over time. I’ve tried to keep it to the most significant influences. Many others who have simply written interesting books will be covered in the References (not yet created) section.
I will be adding short articles on each of these as time permits.
C. J. Cherryh - science fiction author: psychogenesis, sociogenesis
Clayton Christensen - innovation theory
Randall Collins - sociologist
Manuel DeLanda - excellent reconstructions of Deleuzian ontology, history
Samuel R. Delany - science fiction author: semiotics
Gilles Deleuze - ontology, philosophy
Jacques Derrida - deconstruction, philosophy
Michel Foucault - archaeology of knowledge, philosophy, history
Alexandre Grothendieck - mathematician extraordinaire: topos theory, algebraic geometry
G. I. Gurdjieff - radical thinker par excellence
James Joyce - novelist and radical thinker par excellence
John Landis - ace software developer / architect
Saunders Mac Lane - mathematician: category theory
Ilya Prigogine - chemist: non-linear dynamics
Prem Rawat - appreciation of life / existence, inner peace, radical thinker par excellence
Rene Thom - mathematician, developer of catastrophe theory
Robert Anton Wilson - radical thinker par excellence