Interview

David Kuchenbuch, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König

The history of globalism through the prism of media (and biography)

28 March 2023

(0:12 h)

Interview

David Kuchenbuch, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König

The history of globalism through the prism of media (and biography)

How did people in the past understand globalism? GHIL Research Fellow for Modern History Pascale Siegrist and PR Officer Kim König speak with David Kuchenbuch about his research on American designer R. Buckminster Fuller and the (West) German historian Arno Peters. David Kuchenbuch argues that analysing their work as ‘Welt-Bildner’ (makers of worlds) points us to important shifts in twentieth-century political cultures as well as the way in which people understood their place in an interconnected world.

Don't miss David Kuchenbuch's GHIL lecture for an in-depth discussion on R. Buckminster Fuller and Arno Peters as mediators of globalism in the twentieth century.