World Projects: Global Information before World War I

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A leading scholar of media archaeology, Markus Krajewski explores the history of globalization by examining several large-scale projects that, at the beginning of the twentieth century, shared a grand yet unachievable goal: bringing order to the world. He shows how media, technological structures, and naked human ambition paved the way for global-scale ventures that created the first "world wide web."

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"This is a fascinatingand very entertainingstudy. 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

Author Bio

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.