About

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Peter’s Universal Wunderkammer launched in September 2023 as a last ditch effort to consolidate 35 years of wandering down byways, unearthing oddities, exploring frontiers, slipping and sliding from neolithic mental structures to post-Terran aesthetics, and generally making a curious nuisnance of myself. All of which is to say, you’ll probably find something herein that appeals. This is not a guarantee, of course. There is lots and lots and lots of stuff that holds no appeal for anyone other than myself, never has, and as a half-hearted and reluctant supporter of the scientific method and the cabalistic intricacies of statistics, I admit likely never will. But a thunderclap later, as the OG Greeks knew, these sheets of aether could offer things never before spoken.

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The Peter

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I’m Peter BG Shoemaker, and I’m responsible for the Universal Wunderkammer, and for a lot of other things. Sorry. Generally, when people ask what I do, and I describe my life, I usually answer with something along these lines:

Working and living at the intersection of ideas, semiotics, narrative, and practice, I’ve has spent three decades exploring what it means to be human, and how our humanity can be best refracted and amplified through the things we design, create, and put out into the world.

It seems to work, and is as accurate as any other of the versions upon versions of biographies we all have to create to operate publicly in the world. Others would mention a slew of startups, exec positions in media and branding, a bunch of newspaper and magazine work, consultancies in futures for Fortune 500s, esoteric graduate degrees in esoteric subject from slightly less esoteric schools in the US and Europe, and so on until we all want to throw up.

Now days, I do a lot of what you see here, spend a not insignificant time on a cushion staring at a white wall, and work with an incredibly talented partner doing product and interiors design (with a hefty smattering of big think work). Home is France.

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