The book takes the reader on an
intellectual adventure through a carefully curated selection of 120
places that can be understood as metaphors of contemporary global
culture. Spread across all seven continents, from the depths of the
ocean to outer space, these places are divided into six chapters:
Paradises, Utopias, Machines, Monsters, Ruins, and Instruments.

The spectrum ranges from Steve Jobs' Apple Park in California to a
national park in Costa Rica, a small field station for the protection of
wild orangutans in Borneo, the Great Green Wall in Central Africa, the
Trump resort Mar-a-Lago, to the border wall between Israel and
Palestine. This book is a grand tour of the most pertinent places in the
world today.

• A unique and fascinating journey around the world of today
• Featuring custom-made maps created especially for this publication