It may come as a shock that the 'boys' club' of Science Fiction was founded by a 19-year-old girl, but the strange life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley makes it seem quite logical. Shelley's "Frankenstein" (think Gothic manor meets modern laboratory) was an all-too-sane response to the mix of idealism

Catastrophe, Dystopic, Intense, Monumental, Romantic literature, Technology, Tragic

Eric Baudelaire Winner of the 2003 Photographer Grant AWARD-WINNING PROJECT: a photographic journey along eastern borders - from Turkey to the edge of the Caucasus and the Middle East - to track the potential future borders of Europe. Eric Baudelaire has never followed a prearranged path. His life

Anxiety, Architectural, Catastrophe, Conceptual, Conceptual photography, Deconstructive, Political

Man, first carried by woman in the womb, has never slowed down. On the contrary, he mounted a horse then made trains then cars then planes then rockets. It seems man has an unappeasable desire for speed. This is what interests, and worries, the architect, phenomenologist, and theorist, Paul Virili

Angry, Catastrophe, Dystopic, Hallucinatory, Phenomenology, Technology

Stanley Kubrick was born in New York, and was considered intelligent despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would produce better academic performance, Kubrick's father Jack (a physician) sent him in 1940 to Pasadena, California, to stay with his uncle Martin Perveler. Returnin

Architectural, Catastrophe, Expansive, Monumental, Sprawling