Profile

The subject of the chair focuses on the media which are involved in knowledge generation. Their methods, histories and processes are part of the analysis in both, the sciences and the humanities.

Basic research

Cultural and Media History of servants and servers.

Marginal Epistemology

World projects and phantasies of technology

Tools of knowledge and their poetology

Cetology: Moby Dick, or: the Whale considered as a medial and cultural thing

Historiography of Media

Visualization of Knowledge

Female Test Pilots

Research projects

Specific shapes of German post-war architecture

Scholarly Tools (Software for the Humanities)

The Notion of Exactness in Science and Humanities

Cooperations

Harvard University, Harvard Humanities Center

University of Vienna, Forschergruppe Das Fragment

University of California, L.A.