“…The contributors to this volume look at entangled future mobilities and immobilities using humanities and social science approaches in diverse examples: Afrofuturist poetry, de-extinction projects, dystopian novels, a Uruguayan planned relocation program, lives of rural Zambian women, climate adaptation in Morocco and Austrian financial literacy policy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Andy Warhol -- Wie Soya the Cow versucht, die Welt durch Veganismus zu retten -- „I Come to You as the Myth“: Sun Ra und Afrofuturismus -- Les discours du corps noir : négociations entre sujet et persona-artiste dans les expériences rhétoriques chez des artistes afro-brésiliens -- Afropolitane Performancekunst: Die Kunstfi guren und ästhetischen Strategien von Ntando Cele -- Die zeitgenössische Drag-Persona: Eine Rolle? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Worlds, today / The aesthetics of proliferation / Building science-fiction worlds / "He doesn't look like Sherlock Holmes": the truth value and existential status of fictional worlds and their characters / "Visible world": the atlas as a visual form of knowledge and narrative paradigm in contemporary art / A world of Disney: building a transmedia storyworld for Mickey and his friends / World-building logics and copyright: the Dark Knight and the Great Detective / Battleworlds: the management of multiplicity in the media industries / Platform producer meets game master: on the conditions for the media mix / Narrative ecosystems: a multidisciplinary approach to media worlds / The building and blurring of worlds: sound, space, and complex narrative cinema / Beyond immersion: absorption, saturation, and overflow in the building of imaginary worlds / Zombie escape and survival plans: mapping the transmedial world of the dead / MMORPG as locally realized worlds of action / The worries of the world(s): cartoons and cinema / Linguistic terrain and world time: Chinese media theories and their world imaginations / The worlds align: media convergence and complementary storyworlds in Marvel's Thor: The Dark World / World building and metafiction in contemporary comic books: metalepsis and figurative process of graphic fiction / The monster at the end of this book: metalepsis, fandom, and world making in contemporary TV series / Traversing the "Whoniverse": Doctor Who's hyperdiegesis and transmedia discontinuity/diachrony / Transmediaphilia, world building, and the pleasures of the personal digital archive / The politics of world building: heteroglossia in Janelle Monáe's Afrofuturist WondaLand…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Contents -- Section I: Setting Out Some Definitions -- Introduction -- From Structure to Infrastructure: Some Glimpses on a Theoretical Movement in the Social Sciences and Humanities -- From Systems to “Infrastructuring”: Infrastructure Theory and Its Impact on Writing the History of Media -- Section II: Infrastructures and Communication -- Language as Infrastructure -- Conceptual Infrastructure and Conceptual Engineering -- Practices of Classification: The Hashtag as Infrastructure for Interaction -- On the Symbolic Infrastructure of Face-to-face Communication in Early Modern Society: Simple Success Media -- Section III: Infrastructures and Sociality -- Command and Consilium: On Infrastructures of Decision-Making in Roman Culture -- Couple Apps as Relationship Infrastructures -- Infrastructures of Democracy: Lewinian Group Dynamics and the Management of Social Change (1930s-1940s) -- Conflicting Infrastructures: Ideological vs Social Infrastructures in Transmediterranean Communications of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- Section IV: Infrastructures and Religion -- Spiritual Infrastructures -- Infrastructure of Faith: Some Considerations on Correspondence in Late Antique Christianity -- Religious Infrastructure: The Parish Church -- Section V: Infrastructures and Genre -- Infrastructural Poetics -- Queering Infrastructures of Romance -- Counting the Impacts in the Solar Off Grid Sector -- Section VI: Infrastructures and the Environment -- Water for a Good Government: Andean Infrastructures in Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Chronicle (1615) -- The Dangers of Infrastructure Byproducts and What We Can Learn From Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Book of the Dead” -- Afrofuturist Infrastructure as Allegory: Picturing Sustainability in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi (2009) -- Section VII: Infrastructures and Colonialism -- Canals & Clans: Mediterranean Infrastructures -- Imagined Infrastructures: Eurafrica and Worldmaking in the Mid-Twentieth Century -- Imperial Roads and the Fascist Culture of Total Mobilization -- Authors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Einleitung 7 1.1 Jenseits des »Direct Cinema« und seiner Nachahmer*innen - Mashups, Sampling, Kompilieren 23 1.2 Fiction versus Faction: Belegbarkeit und Propositionen 51 1.3 Schocks und Unschärfen: Das Reale, dessen Tarnung und seine Wiederkehr in den Künsten 58 Einleitung 73 2.1 Rationalitäten nach Habermas und Seel 77 2.2 Weltbezüge in der Theorie des Kommunikativen Handelns und in Musikdokumentationen - das Objektive vs. das Soziale 89 2.3 Dramaturgisches Handeln - Expression und Performance 91 2.4 Mimesis, Verständigung, ästhetische Erfahrung 101 2.5 Der ethische Gebrauch der praktischen Vernunft, Urteilskraft und Seinsqualitäten 109 2.6 Das Komplementärverhältnis von Storytelling und Argumentation im Dokumentarischen 115 2.7 Modi des Dokumentarischen nach Bill Nichols 120 2.8 Moralische Perspektiven im Dokumentarischen 140 2.9 Queens of Pop: Britney Spears 146 3.1 Möglichkeiten des Postkonventionellen und die Situierung von »Identitäten« 153 3.2 Soul Power 175 3.3 Vor- und Nichtpropositionales in Audiovisualitäten und dessen lebensweltliche Grundierung 184 4.1 Musik, Zeit und die Schichtungen und Regionen der Erinnerung 197 4.2 Das Innen und das Außen der Archive 221 4.3 Hauntology, Retromanie und das verborgene Erklingen versunkener Utopien 245 4.4 Afrofuturismus versus Rockismus 259 Einleitung 271 5.1 Strategische Vernunft und die Entkopplung von System und Lebenswelt 278 5.2 Formatierung und Normalisierung 290 5.3 »Dispositive« und Massenmedien 306 Danksagung 315 Thematisierte Dokumentationen 317 Thematisierte Spielfilme und Serien 319 Produktionen, an denen Christian Bettges als Autor, Redaktionsleitung, Executive Producer und Produzent mitwirkte und die thematisiert werden 319 Internet-Quellen 320 Literatur 323…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…9 "Tell Your Neighbor Life is Very Tricky": Performing the City in Swahili Comedy Shows in Nairobi -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Comedian: MCA Tricky -- 3 Stage Name and Persona -- 4 Stand-up Comedy -- 5 The Subject of Tricky's Performances -- 6 Nine Steps in the Episode "MCA Tricky Writes a Letter to the President" -- 7 Conclusion -- YouTube Videos -- Section 3: Intermedial Inquiries -- 10 A World(-System) of Debris: Ruins, Remains, and Self-Writing in Narratives across -- 1 Literary and Visual Storytelling across the Indian Ocean -- 2 Self-Writing, Indian Ocean Studies, and World-literature: Toward New Theoretical Departures -- 11 Unraveling Dichotomies in the Indian Ocean World -- 1 Reframing Mauritius: from Island State to Ocean State -- 2 Fluidity -- 3 Binarisms versus Oneness -- 4 Interconnectedness -- 5 Conclusion -- Part 3: Transatlantic Worlds and Artworks -- Section 4: Remembering Relations -- 12 The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Reimagination of Colombian -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Jorge Artel and Tidalectic Poetry -- 3 Conclusion -- 13 Quaseilhas: a Performative and Transmedial Memory -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Performance Space as Space-Time Capsule -- 3 Telling Stories and Fragmented Memories -- 4 Fragmented Stories -- 4.1 The Story Told in Camamu -- 4.2 The Story Told in Pantaleon -- 4.3 The Story Told in Quebra Machado -- 5 The In-Betweens: Visual, Sonic, and Symbolic Connections and Ruptures -- 6 Beyond Fragmented Memories: Afrofuturistic Perspectives -- 14 The Slave-Trade Trauma in Léonora Miano's La Saison de l'ombre (Season of the Shadow) -- 1 The Promise and Potential of African Narratives for the Study of Trauma -- 2 Miano's Origin, Career, and Interest in Slavery -- 3 Trauma Studies and the Postcolonial Movement -- 4 Miano and the Slave-Trade Trauma -- 5 The Traumatic Memory of Capture…”