Markus Krajewski is professor of media history and theory at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the author of Paper Machines: About Cards and Catalogs, 1548 –1929.Charles Marcrum II is a translator of nonfiction and literary works. He earned an AM degree in Germanic languages and literatures from Harvard University.

"This is a fascinating-and very entertaining-study. It weaves a tapestry of early technological globalization made up of projects, pipe dreams, and propaganda. There is on the part of the author a noticeable affection for these world infatuations, but there is also the necessary amount of gentle mockery when they become too unworldly."-Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, University of British Columbia    "World Projects carves out a much needed space for human involvement in networked systems and, by doing so, comments on our own struggles for agency within our highly “globalized” networks today."-Los Angeles Review of Books"Always informative and has true worth for researchers and media archeologists."-Neural

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The World around 19002. The Unity of Diversity: Wilhelm Ostwald’s World Formations3. World History of Technology: Dr. Franz Maria Feldhaus4. Systems Economy: Walther Rathenau, Man of the World5. As for the Rest: In Search of the World’s RemainsNotesBibliographyIndex

Markus Krajewski is professor of media history and theory at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the author of Paper Machines: About Cards and Catalogs, 1548 –1929.Charles Marcrum II is a translator of nonfiction and literary works. He earned an AM degree in Germanic languages and literatures from Harvard University.

"This is a fascinating-and very entertaining-study. It weaves a tapestry of early technological globalization made up of projects, pipe dreams, and propaganda. There is on the part of the author a noticeable affection for these world infatuations, but there is also the necessary amount of gentle mockery when they become too unworldly."-Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, University of British Columbia    "World Projects carves out a much needed space for human involvement in networked systems and, by doing so, comments on our own struggles for agency within our highly “globalized” networks today."-Los Angeles Review of Books"Always informative and has true worth for researchers and media archeologists."-Neural

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The World around 19002. The Unity of Diversity: Wilhelm Ostwald’s World Formations3. World History of Technology: Dr. Franz Maria Feldhaus4. Systems Economy: Walther Rathenau, Man of the World5. As for the Rest: In Search of the World’s RemainsNotesBibliographyIndex

Markus Krajewski is professor of media history and theory at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the author of Paper Machines: About Cards and Catalogs, 1548 –1929.Charles Marcrum II is a translator of nonfiction and literary works. He earned an AM degree in Germanic languages and literatures from Harvard University.

"This is a fascinating-and very entertaining-study. It weaves a tapestry of early technological globalization made up of projects, pipe dreams, and propaganda. There is on the part of the author a noticeable affection for these world infatuations, but there is also the necessary amount of gentle mockery when they become too unworldly."-Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, University of British Columbia    "World Projects carves out a much needed space for human involvement in networked systems and, by doing so, comments on our own struggles for agency within our highly “globalized” networks today."-Los Angeles Review of Books"Always informative and has true worth for researchers and media archeologists."-Neural

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The World around 19002. The Unity of Diversity: Wilhelm Ostwald’s World Formations3. World History of Technology: Dr. Franz Maria Feldhaus4. Systems Economy: Walther Rathenau, Man of the World5. As for the Rest: In Search of the World’s RemainsNotesBibliographyIndex