Table of Contents

1. Introduction.2. Afro-Pessimism (Joseph Winters).3. Alternate History (Dirk Niefanger).4. Anthropocene (Sarah Marak).5. Archive (Martha Schoolman).6. Artificial Intelligence (Scott Sundvall).7. Astrofuturism (Alexandra Ganser).8. Calendar (Marc Andre Matten).9. Contingency (Wolfgang Knöbl).10. Data (Lev Manovich).11. Death (Nader El-Bizri).12. Decision (Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger).13. Democracy (Mareike Gebhardt).14. Development (Aram Ziai).15. Digitization (Scott Selisker).16. Divination (Ulrike Ludwig).17. Dreaming (Barbara Weber).18. Fate (Georges Tamer).19. Fictionality (John Carlos Rowe).20. Forecasting (Arunabh Ghosh).21. Futurism (Peter Maurits).22. Futurology (Sohail Inayatullah).23. Gesture (Rebecca Schneider).24. Hope (Florian Tatschner).25. Ignorance (Katharina Gerund).26. Imagination (Birgit Spengler).27. Knowledge (Heike Paul).28. Magic (Erik Mortenson).29. Messianism (Anna Akasoy).30. Millennialism (Catherine Wessinger).31. Mission (Marina Ngursangzeli Behera).32. Neoliberalism (Renee Heberle).33. Optimism (Wendy Larson).34. Planning (Julia Obertreis).35. Play (Fabian Schäfer).- 36. Prefiguration (Mathijs van de Sande).37. Prevention (Stefan Willer).38. Queer Futurity (Cedric Essi).39. Revolution (Lanie Millar).40. Science Fiction (Marc Bould).41. Security (Timothy Melley).42. Seriality (Elisabeth Bronfen).43. Singularity (Luke Goode).44. Speculative realism (Graham Harman).45. Sustainability (Frank Adloff).46. Temporality (Raji Steineck).47. Time (Frank Darwiche).48. Time Travel (Kay Kirchmann).49. Transhumansim  (Jennifer Gidley).50. Utopia (Barnita Bagchi).51. Virtuality (Marie-Laure Ryan).

About the Author

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Heike Paul is Chair of American Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. She is the author of The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies (2014) and the co-editor of The Comeback of Populism: Transatlantic Perspectives (2019). She is currently Director of the Bavarian American Academy in Munich. She previously served as Vice-President of the German Association for American Studies (2014-2017). In 2018, she was awarded the Leibniz-Prize by the German Research Foundation.