Utopie

Can the apocalypse of one be the dream of another? What are the high hopes, the great expectations that today are associated with utopian thinking? Currently, little seems as impossible and yet necessary as utopian thought. For contemplating future-oriented designs means also questioning the present regarding its dystopian tendencies. Wishing for a deserted island or the opposite: searching for a way off it—these are just two paths into fiction that issue N°11 Utopia traverses as the seventh edition in the series Lebenswelt. With literary and literary or cultural studies contributions from Lukas Beck, Steffen Brenner, Charlotte Coch, Christoph Cox, Christoph Danne, Franz Friedrich, Valeria Gordeev, Henning Heske, Adrian Kasnitz, Lisa Krusche, Leo Lemke, Sophia Merwald, Jana Carina Niedert, Hendrik Otremba, Johannes Otte, Rolf Parr, Kathrin Röggla, Erasmus Schöfer, Tom Schulz, Michael Schwarzbach-Dobson, Pia Luisa Steffen, Ilija Trojanow, Wilhelm Vosskamp, and Alexander Weinstock, as well as artistic contributions from Andreas Erb and Hendrik Otremba.