Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! A Paul Scheerbart Reader
Edited by Christine Burgin and Josiah McElheny
With essays by Noam Elcott, Rosemarie Haag Bletter,
Gary Indiana, Hollyamber Kennedy, Guy Maddin,
Christopher Turner and Hubertus von Amelunxen
Translations by Anne Posten
Illustrated by Paul Scheerbart and Josiah McElheny
Christine Burgin/University of Chicago Press

German writer, critic, and theorist Paul Scheerbart (1863–1915) is considered by some a mad eccentric and by others a visionary political thinker, but his -influence is still felt today. Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! A Paul Scheerbart Reader is the first extensive collection of Scheerbart’s writings to be published in -English. Along with his influential architectural manifesto Glass Architecture (1914) and his dream of perpetual energy, Perpetual Motion: The Story of an Invention (1910), a selection of his fantastical experiments with the short story form appear here for the first time. Contemporary essays commissioned for this book illuminate -Scheerbart’s importance and the relevence of his ideas in his own time and ours.

Coedited by artist Josiah McElheny and Christine Burgin, with new artwork created for this publication by McElheny, Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! is a long-overdue monument to a modern master.

With essays by Hubertus von Amelunxen, Rosemarie Haag Bletter, Noam M. Elcott, Gary Indiana, Hollyamber Kennedy, Guy Maddin and Christopher Turner.