Ricarda Vidal is a lecturer, curator and translator and teaches cultural studies at King’s College London. Her monograph Death and Desire in Car Crash Culture: A Century of Romantic Futurisms (Peter Lang Oxford, 2013) examines the fascination with speed and the car crash in cultural production. She has also co-edited a collection of essays on contemporary approaches to death, The Power of Death (2014). She is currently exploring the impact of macro-engineering on the cultural imagination as well as leading a research and exhibition project into the theory and practice of translation within the fine arts and literature, ‘Translation Games’.Ingo Cornils is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds. He has published widely on German science fiction, the German student movement and Hermann Hesse. Recent volumes include Memories of 1968: International Perspectives (2010, with Sarah Waters), A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse (2009) and Baader-Meinhof Returns: History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism (2008, with Gerrit-Jan Berendse). He is currently writing a monograph on the construction of ‘1968’ in Germany.

• Contents: Ricarda Vidal: Atlantropa: One of the Missed Opportunities of the Future – Daniel Garcia-Castellanos/Ricarda Vidal: Alternative Mediterraneans Six Million Years Ago: A Model for the Future? – Philip E. Steinberg/Elizabeth A. Nyman/Mauro J. Caraccioli: Atlas Swam: Freedom, Capital and Floating Sovereignties in the Seasteading Vision – Patricia Silva McNeill: The Last ‘City of the Future’: Brasília and its Representation in Literature and Film – Elena Solomides: The Post-War High-Rise: Promise of an Alternative World – Christopher Daley: ‘The landscape is coded’: Visual Culture and the Alternative Worlds of J.G. Ballard’s Early Fiction – Maya Oppenheimer: Designed Surfaces and the Utopics of Rejuvenation – Boukje Cnossen: The Alternative World of Michel Houellebecq – Susanne Kord: From the American Myth to the American Dream: Alternative Worlds in Recent Hollywood Westerns – Marjolaine Ryley: Growing up in the New Age: A Journey into Wonderland? – Peter Dickens: Alternative Worlds in the Cosmos – Ingo Cornils: Between Bauhaus and Bügeleisen: The Iconic Style of Raumpatrouille (1966) – Rachel Steward: Blue Sky Thinking in a Post-Astronautic Present.

Ricarda Vidal is a lecturer, curator and translator and teaches cultural studies at King’s College London. Her monograph Death and Desire in Car Crash Culture: A Century of Romantic Futurisms (Peter Lang Oxford, 2013) examines the fascination with speed and the car crash in cultural production. She has also co-edited a collection of essays on contemporary approaches to death, The Power of Death (2014). She is currently exploring the impact of macro-engineering on the cultural imagination as well as leading a research and exhibition project into the theory and practice of translation within the fine arts and literature, ‘Translation Games’.Ingo Cornils is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds. He has published widely on German science fiction, the German student movement and Hermann Hesse. Recent volumes include Memories of 1968: International Perspectives (2010, with Sarah Waters), A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse (2009) and Baader-Meinhof Returns: History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism (2008, with Gerrit-Jan Berendse). He is currently writing a monograph on the construction of ‘1968’ in Germany.

• Contents: Ricarda Vidal: Atlantropa: One of the Missed Opportunities of the Future – Daniel Garcia-Castellanos/Ricarda Vidal: Alternative Mediterraneans Six Million Years Ago: A Model for the Future? – Philip E. Steinberg/Elizabeth A. Nyman/Mauro J. Caraccioli: Atlas Swam: Freedom, Capital and Floating Sovereignties in the Seasteading Vision – Patricia Silva McNeill: The Last ‘City of the Future’: Brasília and its Representation in Literature and Film – Elena Solomides: The Post-War High-Rise: Promise of an Alternative World – Christopher Daley: ‘The landscape is coded’: Visual Culture and the Alternative Worlds of J.G. Ballard’s Early Fiction – Maya Oppenheimer: Designed Surfaces and the Utopics of Rejuvenation – Boukje Cnossen: The Alternative World of Michel Houellebecq – Susanne Kord: From the American Myth to the American Dream: Alternative Worlds in Recent Hollywood Westerns – Marjolaine Ryley: Growing up in the New Age: A Journey into Wonderland? – Peter Dickens: Alternative Worlds in the Cosmos – Ingo Cornils: Between Bauhaus and Bügeleisen: The Iconic Style of Raumpatrouille (1966) – Rachel Steward: Blue Sky Thinking in a Post-Astronautic Present.

Ricarda Vidal is a lecturer, curator and translator and teaches cultural studies at King’s College London. Her monograph Death and Desire in Car Crash Culture: A Century of Romantic Futurisms (Peter Lang Oxford, 2013) examines the fascination with speed and the car crash in cultural production. She has also co-edited a collection of essays on contemporary approaches to death, The Power of Death (2014). She is currently exploring the impact of macro-engineering on the cultural imagination as well as leading a research and exhibition project into the theory and practice of translation within the fine arts and literature, ‘Translation Games’.Ingo Cornils is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds. He has published widely on German science fiction, the German student movement and Hermann Hesse. Recent volumes include Memories of 1968: International Perspectives (2010, with Sarah Waters), A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse (2009) and Baader-Meinhof Returns: History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism (2008, with Gerrit-Jan Berendse). He is currently writing a monograph on the construction of ‘1968’ in Germany.

• Contents: Ricarda Vidal: Atlantropa: One of the Missed Opportunities of the Future – Daniel Garcia-Castellanos/Ricarda Vidal: Alternative Mediterraneans Six Million Years Ago: A Model for the Future? – Philip E. Steinberg/Elizabeth A. Nyman/Mauro J. Caraccioli: Atlas Swam: Freedom, Capital and Floating Sovereignties in the Seasteading Vision – Patricia Silva McNeill: The Last ‘City of the Future’: Brasília and its Representation in Literature and Film – Elena Solomides: The Post-War High-Rise: Promise of an Alternative World – Christopher Daley: ‘The landscape is coded’: Visual Culture and the Alternative Worlds of J.G. Ballard’s Early Fiction – Maya Oppenheimer: Designed Surfaces and the Utopics of Rejuvenation – Boukje Cnossen: The Alternative World of Michel Houellebecq – Susanne Kord: From the American Myth to the American Dream: Alternative Worlds in Recent Hollywood Westerns – Marjolaine Ryley: Growing up in the New Age: A Journey into Wonderland? – Peter Dickens: Alternative Worlds in the Cosmos – Ingo Cornils: Between Bauhaus and Bügeleisen: The Iconic Style of Raumpatrouille (1966) – Rachel Steward: Blue Sky Thinking in a Post-Astronautic Present.