Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Afro-Pessimism (Joseph Winters).- 3. Alternate History (Dirk Niefanger).- 4. Anthropocene (Sarah Marak).- 5. Archive (Martha Schoolman).- 6. Artificial Intelligence (Scott Sundvall).- 7. Astrofuturism (Alexandra Ganser).- 8. Calendar (Marc Andre Matten).- 9. Contingency (Wolfgang Knöbl).- 10. Data (Lev Manovich).- 11. Death (Nader El-Bizri).- 12. Decision (Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger).- 13. Democracy (Mareike Gebhardt).- 14. Development (Aram Ziai).- 15. Digitization (Scott Selisker).- 16. Divination (Ulrike Ludwig).- 17. Dreaming (Barbara Weber).- 18. Fate (Georges Tamer).- 19. Fictionality (John Carlos Rowe).- 20. Forecasting (Arunabh Ghosh).- 21. Futurism (Peter Maurits).- 22. Futurology (Sohail Inayatullah).- 23. Gesture (Rebecca Schneider).- 24. Hope (Florian Tatschner).- 25. Ignorance (Katharina Gerund).- 26. Imagination (Birgit Spengler).- 27. Knowledge (Heike Paul).- 28. Magic (Erik Mortenson).- 29. Messianism (Anna Akasoy).- 30. Millennialism (Catherine Wessinger).- 31. Mission (Marina Ngursangzeli Behera).- 32. Neoliberalism (Renee Heberle).- 33. Optimism (Wendy Larson).- 34. Planning (Julia Obertreis).- 35.   Play (Fabian Schäfer).- 36. Prefiguration (Mathijs van de Sande).- 37. Prevention (Stefan Willer).- 38. Queer Futurity (Cedric Essi).- 39. Revolution (Lanie Millar).- 40. Science Fiction (Marc Bould).- 41. Security (Timothy Melley).- 42. Seriality (Elisabeth Bronfen).- 43. Singularity (Luke Goode).- 44. Speculative realism (Graham Harman).- 45. Sustainability (Frank Adloff).- 46. Temporality (Raji Steineck).-  47.  Time (Frank Darwiche).- 48. Time Travel (Kay Kirchmann).- 49.  Transhumansim  (Jennifer Gidley) .- 50. Utopia (Barnita Bagchi).- 51. Virtuality (Marie-Laure Ryan).

About the Author

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Heike Paul is Chair of American Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. She is the author of The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies (2014) and the co-editor of The Comeback of Populism: Transatlantic Perspectives (2019). She is currently Director of the Bavarian American Academy in Munich. She previously served as Vice-President of the German Association for American Studies (2014-2017). In 2018, she was awarded the Leibniz-Prize by the German Research Foundation.