This years academy wants to draw an international comparison of the ghostly in architecture, politics, art, theory and our everyday life. At various times of day it is possible to discern different degrees of social phantomization, of oneself and one’s surroundings: perhaps one was once haunted by ghostly forces that came from the no-place of utopia and themselves were the phantom of a utopian communist society; perhaps, these days, one is a someone-or-other somewhere-or-other in the realm of facts, a kind on non-person, which almost seems to be a precondition of and economic basis for success anyhow. “The phantom of the market economy has replaced the ghost of communism” (Heiner Müller). So what do the ghosts of the future look like?