Eine Welt/One World: Arno Peters, R. Buckminster Fuller and the Media History of Globalism, 1940s to 1990s

本研究项目旨在重建20世纪下半叶美国和德意志联邦共和国“一个世界主义”的政治语义。从媒体史的角度出发，本书关注了两位专门研究全球相互依赖的媒体化的人：德国历史学家和制图师阿诺·彼得斯（1916-2002）和美国发明家r·巴克明斯特·富勒（1895-1983）。彼得斯和富勒设计了畅销的世界地图和世界历史图表，以及角色扮演练习——这些媒介传达了“西方”的个人是如何被纠缠在全球结构中的。在广泛的档案研究的基础上，该项目将追踪这些全球代表所依据的知识。此外，他们在美国和德国政治文化中的共鸣将被深入研究。该项目试图将人们对媒体能力的希望历史化，以唤起人们对地球和人类的个人责任感，从而拓宽我们对20世纪“主体化”的理解。

The research project aims at reconstructing the political semantics of "One Worldism" in the USA and the Federal Republic of Germany in the second half of the 20th century. Assuming the perspective of media history, it focuses on two individuals who specialized in the mediatisation of global interdependencies: German historian and cartographer Arno Peters (1916-2002) and American inventor R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983). Peters and Fuller designed bestselling world maps and world-history charts as well as role-playing exercises - media that conveyed how individuals in the "West" were entangled in global structures. On the basis of extensive archival research, the project will trace the knowledge on which these representations of the global were based. Further, their resonance within both American and German political culture will be fathomed. The project attempts to historicize hopes placed in the capability of media to evoke feelings of personal responsibility towards planet Earth and mankind, thus broadening our understanding of "subjectivation" in the 20th century.