How do you get global thinking into people's heads? How do you get them to show solidarity with their “closest neighbors”? How do you make them understand what it means for your own life to be on the “spaceship earth”? Arno Peters (1916-2002) and Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) believed they had answers to questions that couldn't be more topical. They were world builders. Both made a name for themselves with attempts to stimulate thinking about globality with the help of visual media - about planetary conditions, cross-border interdependencies, intercultural communication, about supranational organizations. David Kuchenbuch spans the world order visions of the 1940s to today's debate about the Anthropocene. At the same time a double biography and a history of media reception, his book links the history of globalism with the history of the politics of the first person in the 20th century.