![]() If you looked back at William Blake and thought, “Oh, he's just like one of us today, just in that period of time instead.” And your answer was no. During that conversation I asked you if you thought people had always been fundamentally the same. A book that’s coming out very soon: William Blake Vs the World. YANCEY: The first time we met we were having lunch in London and you told me you were working on a book about William Blake. John’s ideas - exploring metamodernism, the rise of empathy, and a new concept of individualism - are well worth your time. The interview is being published as a written Q&A (condensed and edited for length) and as a podcast, which you can listen to above or on Apple, Spotify, or wherever else. To have John Higgs, in many ways the namesake of this publication, as the first guest is a dream. After he read my book This Could Be Our Future, he sent me a magazine dedicated to pictures of people burning money. I’ve been fortunate to get to know John the past few years. I’m thrilled to introduce this Ideaspace’s interview series with a conversation with John Higgs. ![]() In that book, Higgs explores the group’s infamous decision to burn a million pounds - almost all their money - and how this was perhaps inspired by something like the Ideaspace. ![]() I first read about this idea in an amazing book by the writer John Higgs about the band the KLF. The name of this publication comes from a phrase by the graphic novelist Alan Moore, who called the mysterious place where ideas come from “the Ideaspace.” A place so powerful it could transcend and even transform the physical world. ![]()
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