The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction

De Witt Douglas Kilgore is associate professor of English and Adjunct Professor American Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Astrofuturism: Science, Race and Visions of Utopia in Space (2003).

De Witt Douglas Kilgore

Metabolizing the Future

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Race and Popular Fantasy Literature

Breaking the Habit of Whiteness

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

Past Futures

Envisioning Astroculture in the American Hemisphere

De Witt Douglas Kilgore is associate professor of English and Adjunct Professor American Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Astrofuturism: Science, Race and Visions of Utopia in Space (2003).