The serene and gentle amazement with which [Scheerbart] tells of the strange natural laws of other worlds . . . makes him one of those humorists who, like Lichtenberg or Jean Paul, seem never to forget that the earth is a heavenly body. Walter BenjaminFirst published in German in 1913 and widely considered to be Paul Scheerbarts masterpiece, Lesabndio is an intergalactic utopian novel that describes life on the planetoid Pallas, where rubbery suctionfooted life forms with telescopic eyes smoke bubbleweed in mushroom meadows under violet skies and green stars. Amid the conveyorbelt highways and lighthouses weaving together the mountains and valleys, a visionary named Lesabndio hatches a plan to build a 44milehigh tower and employ architecture to connect the two halves of their double star. A cosmic ecological fable, Scheerbarts novel was admired by such architects as Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, and such thinkers as Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem (whose wedding present to Benjamin was a copy of Lesabndio). Benjamin had intended to devote the concluding section of his lost manuscript The True Politician with a discussion of the positive political possibilities embedded in Scheerbarts Asteroid Novel. As translator Christina Svendsen writes in her introduction, Lesabndio helps us imagine an ecological politics more daring than the conservative politics of preservation, even as it reminds us that we are part of a larger galactic set of interrelationships. This volume...

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